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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Resuscitatio (1657)
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
Libraries: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)