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- To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers…
- If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy…
- Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed…
- To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of…
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands.…
- ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
- If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read…
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
- Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
- One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order…
- This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
- Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read…
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