Accustomed Quote by Laurence Sterne

“Ah! How little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much. And when I actually find it…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that…

— Daniel Levitin

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of…

— Will Durant

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought…

— Andrew Coster

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous

“If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all…

— Anonymous

“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I…

— Frances Mayes