Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

I like to read and understand.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.