Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.

Some of our beliefs will seem ridiculous in a hundred years’ time. Some already seemed so a thousand years ago.

We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.

Newspaper publishers profit greatly from the widespread belief that reading newspapers gives others the impression that one is smart or at least mature.

Loyalty is usually a vice when it comes to things such as beliefs.

A statement can be truthful when it is said or written, but untruthful when it is heard or read.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

Even most of those who really never have time to read a book usually have more than enough time to listen to one.

Ignorance often makes a complicated thing seem simple, or vice versa.