# Quote — José Saramago, The Cave

> You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I’m not so sure, You’ll have to read differently then, How, The same method doesn’t work for everyone, each person has to invent his or her own, whichever suits them best, some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don’t understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they’re there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it’s the other side that matters, Unless, Unless what, Unless those river don’t just have two shores but many, unless each reader is his or own shore, and that shore is the only shore worth reaching,

- Author: [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md)
- Book: [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md)
- Page: 60
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/you-can-learn

## More from this book

> The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.

p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/the-young-have.md)

> Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/life-is-like.md)

> Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning,

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/where-do-begin.md)