Bookworms Quote by Robert D. Richardson

“An earthworm close by sighed and said, “Well now, men are clear enough about what they’ve understood, but can’t infer one thing from another.…

— Issai Chozanshi

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

“Emerson looked like a Puritan minister, with abrupt cheekbones and a long, bony nose. A man of solitude, he was prone to bouts of…

— Jonah Lehrer

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

— John Burroughs

“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel…

— Rex Stout

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires…

— David Foster Wallace

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison

— Joshua Reynolds

“A book without words is a mind without thought.”

— Catherine Forbes

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“How can any one become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third part of the day without passions, men, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable…

— Henry James

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle