Books Quote by Rene Descartes Download Open image “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Rene Descartes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Communication Conversation Good book Past Psychology Reading
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 Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.” — Abid Hussain Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it… — Rene Descartes 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