Books Quote by Doris Lessing

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

— Thomas Carlyle

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't…

— Yann Martel

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of…

— Sydney J. Harris

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must…

— Mary Virginia Provines

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

— Doris Lessing

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

— Howard Nemerov

“Once you learn to read minds you lose interest in reading books”

— Sheetal Vijay