Catholic Quote by Ambrose

There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what he reads.

— Wagner T Matioli

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere…

— John Milton

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

— John Milton

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.…

— Mortimer J. Adler

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

— Wallace Stevens

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

— Benjamin Franklin