Books Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational Reader Smart Thousand
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about. — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
“Bones is, in short, my hero. She is like a one-woman marketing campaign for smart girls.” — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Those of a future generation will one day look back on printed books with the same benign and befuddled expressions that we use when… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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