Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Reading Books

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Civilization, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading Books, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, University of Missouri Press

• Never read any book that is not a year old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Reading Books

  "Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters".

• I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.54, Penguin

• An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.78, Courier Corporation

• I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Graphic Arts Books

• It is with a good book as it is with good company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Good Company

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

• Life loiters at the book's first page,--
  Ah! could we turn the leaf.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.136, Everyman's Library

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