“It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”
William Oslerbooksreading
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Quotes on reading and the insight that books offer. On how reading widens our world.
“It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”
— William Osler
“It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”
“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
“Read much, but not many books.”
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“If you do not read even for a day, thorns grow in your mouth.”
“Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting.”
“Reading merely provides the materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes them one's own.”