“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

The Gift of Disease (1996)

“I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.”

Carson Cistulli (1979) American poet and writer

Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

“I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.

“Find that person who, looking into your eyes, can read your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Trova quella persona che, guardandoti negli occhi, riesce a leggere il tuo cuore.
Source: prevale.net

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Stages on Life's Way

Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)

“I was a bookish kid. I spent long hours in the library reading everything I could find, histories, biographies, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries. I was curious about the world and there’s no better way to find things out than through the pages of a book. Even today if some kid asks me what’s the first step to take to become a doctor, I answer, “Read, read, read.””

Sanjay Gupta (1969) journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeon

Finding My Path in Life (2011)

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

Letter to Abigail Adams (28 December 1794), Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
1790s
Source: Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

“You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

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