...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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      “I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”  
  ―    Ludwig van Beethoven

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A book is a mirror: when a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



A good preface must be at once the square root and the square of its book.

— Friedrich von Schlegel



A great book is a mine as well as a mint: it suggests and excites as much thought as it presents in finished form.

— George Iles

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A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

— Martin Luther


A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

— John Muir


After all, the Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

— Samuel Butler

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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.

— Johannes Kepler



After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the [last] two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book “Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung” by the light of a storm lamp.

— Nicolaas Bloembergen


Amoeba has her picture in the book,
Proud Protozoon!—Yet beware of pride,
All she can do is fatten and divide;
She cannot even read, or sew, or cook…
The Worm can crawl
But has no eyes to look.
The Jelly-fish can swim
But lacks a bride.

— Sir Julian Huxley

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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man’s creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us—a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

— Adam Sedgwick


Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.

— Edwin Armstrong



At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather’s library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. … I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. … So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

— Jesse L. Greenstein



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

— Mark Twain


Books and libraries and the will to use them are among the most important tools our nation has to diffuse knowledge and to develop our powers of creative wisdom.

— John F. Kennedy

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whenever a textbook is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned; for it cannot be educational. In education as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place. This evil path is represented by a book or a set of lectures which will practically enable the student to learn by heart all the questions likely to be asked at the next external examination.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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    'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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      “I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”  
  ―    Jalaluddin Rumi

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      “Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.”  
  ―    William Wordsworth

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      “Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”  
  ―    Maya Angelou

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      “Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.”  
  ―    Kobayashi Issa

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      “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”  
  ―    Friedrich Nietzsche

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1) “When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus

2) “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

3) “You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.” — John Waters

4) “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” — Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)

5) “What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” — Anne Lamott

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Anda adalah cermin dari pikiran-pikiran Anda sendiri.

[Syekh Muhammad Al Ghazali]