Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

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

“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

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

— John Milton

“Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we’re often accused of being heady. I don’t care. I love books and can devour…

— AnnaLisa Grant

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

“None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used…

— John Russell

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them,…

— Rene Descartes

“Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. And books that are over your head…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.”

— Abid Hussain

“a good reader makes a good book”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“reading is the equivallent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Sch