“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”
As quoted in The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom (2007) by Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, p. 496.
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“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
Of Books.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

as quoted by Edwin E. Salpeter in My Sixty Years with Hans Bethe, in an edition by [Gerald Edward Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hans Bethe and his physics, World Scientific, 2006, 9812566090, 119–120]