Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Read books. They are good for us.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.