Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Reading

• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Books And Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

• Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bible, Spiritual, Reading

• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

• I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Book, Learning

• Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

• One must be an inventor to read well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Creative Writers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

• Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Future

• In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

• In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Library, Paper

  "Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.413

• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

• What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

• A man is known by the books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

• We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.144

• Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Suggestions

• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

• Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Blood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.257, Harvard University Press

• I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

• Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.153, Courier Corporation

• Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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