Superficial Reading Quotes

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.