Books Quote by Stanislaw Lem

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

“No one reads to know, but to forget”

— Emil Cioran

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

— Albert Einstein

“You can only learn to read by reading.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that…

— James A. Secord

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

— Paul de Man

“No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read…

— A. Edward Newton

“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . .…

— Pamela Paul

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing