A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is known by the books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

George Orwell

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

J. Oswald Sanders

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

Romain Rolland

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Sherman Alexie

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Lin Yutang

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

C. S. Lewis

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Walter Mosley

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

Michael Winter

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

Beth Macy

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

Mary Pilon

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Samuel Johnson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

Alexander Pope

Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.

Dorianne Laux

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