Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

“The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether -…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems.…

— Ibn Khaldun

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment…

— Karl Kraus

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own…

— Timothy Ferriss

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

— Guy Claxton

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own…

— Albert Einstein

“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid…

— Edward Gibbon

“Without the willingness to study, how can you become a scholar?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a…

— William Matthews