Abundance Quote by Daniel Levitin

“What’s the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is not taught,…

— Ryan Holiday

“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

The abundance of books is distraction

— Seneca the Younger

To read too many books is harmful.

— Mao Zedong

“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read all the…

— Winston S. Churchill

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

— E.M. Forster

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading…

— Joshua Foer

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the confirmed belief…

— Henry Miller

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Owing to the flood of shallow books which really are exhausted in one reading, the modern mind tends to think every book is the…

— D.H. Lawrence