“You read too much and understand too little.”
Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising
Moiraine Damodred
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Shadow Rising
“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Context: Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
