"Reading is a mere makeshift for original..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.”

“Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.”

“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

“I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.”

“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”

“The best place to solve a problem is on paper.”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.”