George Eliot book Scenes of Clerical Life
"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 4
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
George Eliot book Scenes of Clerical Life
"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 4
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
“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
“To read is to let someone else work for you — the most delicate form of exploitation.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Statement recorded in the diary of his companion Johanna Fantova, quoted at the end of the New York Times story "From Companion's Lost Diary, A Portrait of Einstein in Old Age" http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/nyregion/from-companion-s-lost-diary-a-portrait-of-einstein-in-old-age.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm by Dennis Overbye (24 April 2004) <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
As quoted in Science Teaching : The Role of History and Philosophy of Science (1994) by Michael R. Matthews, p. 195
This quote should be removed from the disputed section: A Debate with Felix the Manichean{AD 404) para 1709 from The Faith of the Early Fathers: St. Augustine to the end of the patristic age" W.A. Jurgens https://books.google.com/books?id=rkvLsueY_DwC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=augustine+a+debate+with+felix+the+manichean&source=bl&ots=hjro48PiBF&sig=ARQdKxrvvOTvzhIZHPqDRnldwWk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8ybaI0oLLAhUM4GMKHUosAaYQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=augustine%20a%20debate%20with%20felix%20the%20manichean&f=false
Disputed
“A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
Robbie Coburn (1994) Australian writer
in 2014, Overland literary journal
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
"How to Tell a Major Poet from a Minor Poet" in The New Yorker (1938); reprinted in Quo Vadimus: Or, the Case for the Bicycle (1939)
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Letter to Mitchell Kennerley about the book Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace, October 1, 1917 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr6atcdK37EC&pg=PA123 https://books.google.com/books?id=2BL2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2383 <br class="br">1910s