Richard Whately Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

  Richard Whately

  Book, Passion, Imagination

• As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Book, Reading

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.500

• It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.

  Richard Whately

  Book, Heart, Study

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.484

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