Source: Lead the Field
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 863
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)
“No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.”
Section 159
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”
The Paris Review interview (1984)
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
“A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss”
Briefe, das Studium der Theologie betressend (1780-81), Vierundzwanzigster Brief; cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 10, p. 260. Translation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria (London: Rest Fenner, 1817) vol. 1, ch. 11, pp. 233-34.
Context: With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty; even were there no other worse consequences. A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss; and he, who sends away through the pen and the press every thought, the moment it occurs to him, will in a short time have sent all away, and will become a mere journeyman of the printing-office, a compositor.
