READING/BOOKS

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“A book should be an axe for the frozen sea inside of you.” (Franz Kafka)

The paper is like a photography darkroom for my mind. (Kevin Kelly)

"I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Reading was my first love.” (Naval Ravikant)

“Reading a book isn’t a race - the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.”(Naval Ravikant)

“I don’t actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.”(Naval Ravikant)

“Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”(Naval Ravikant)

“As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.” (Charlie Munger)

“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect this idea. Which is why the plot of every book ever can be boiled down to ‘someone is looking for something’.” (Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive)

"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.” Life is much too short to finish a bad book." (Schopenhauer)

“The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.” (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)

“Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsuccessfully) before. It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.” (General Mattis)

“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind.” (Seneca)

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind." (Henry Thoreau)

“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.” (Edgar Allen Poe)

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” (Francis Bacon)

"A recipe for getting more out of what you read: Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice." (James Clear)

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