Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”
Source: Lead the Field
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American motivational speaker 1921–1989Related quotes
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 863
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) English novelist
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)
“No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
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?”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
The Paris Review interview (1984)
“And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
Walter Scott book The Monastery
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.
“A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss”
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
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.