Approach Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

— Clive Thompson

“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being in general),…

— Martin Heidegger

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Sean Clouden

“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same…

— Étienne Gilson

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

— William Gilbert

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

— Edward Hirsch

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

“principles of reading: reduce articles to their essence, read and write in the same day, subscribe to journals, and learn to skim.”

— Wendy Laura Belcher

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

— Jimmy Wales