Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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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.
“We think too much and feel too little.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
“You read too much and understand too little.”
Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising
Moiraine Damodred
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Shadow Rising
