Book Quote by Frances Osborne

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that…

— Charles Spurgeon

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire…

— Samuel Johnson

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

— Michel de Montaigne

“We must connect students to books that force them to pay attention, to think and wonder, to imagine and believe, and then read for…

— Peggy Kittle

“The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places… Always bear in mind that your own resolution to…

— Anonymous

“If students merely recite academic concepts from books and their instructors' verbal lectures, it will not help them to clearly understand course material contents…

— Saaif Alam

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so…

— Maeve Binchy

I look at every book as a new learning opportunity.

— Ravi Subramanian

“study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.”

— Sean Clouden

The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy…

— William Matthews