Amos Bronson Alcott Quote

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though perception is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more; — book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though perception is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is...

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though perception is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is...

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though perception is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is...

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though perception is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is...