Art Quote by Lin Yutang Download Open image “Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.” — Lin Yutang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Book Books Doe Obligation Reading
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.” — Ian Campbell Ross Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
One can read every book ever written, but it means nothing if one does not comprehend the message. — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
