Book Quote by Seneca Download Open image ““distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”” — Seneca ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Information overload Seneca
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping… — David Ulin Copy Share Image
“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“I do suffer from an associative malady that permits me to justify acquiring almost every book.” — Henry Hitchens (Browse Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say "can," I… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
