Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Reading

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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Thomas Carlyle

Book, Reading, Writing

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Thomas Carlyle

Art, Book, Reading

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

Time, Book, Reading

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

Thomas Carlyle

Book, Reading, Biographies

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Thomas Carlyle

Reading, May, Saws

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

Thomas Carlyle

Real, Reading, Attention

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press