Insightful Reading Quotes

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Don't read to remember; read to realize.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.