Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention;…

— Samuel Johnson

“Reading does not make a man wise,it only makes him learned.”

— Anonymous

“A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise, because he likes it; and that is probably the…

— Arthur Christopher Benson

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

— Anonymous

Man is what he reads.

— Joseph Brodsky

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more…

— Edith Wharton

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

— Richard Baxter

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards…

— Samuel Johnson

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what he reads.

— Wagner T Matioli