Books Quote by Mortimer J. Adler

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

— Mortimer Adler

“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.”

— Robert James

“A person who can read and doesn't, is no better off than a person who can't read.”

— Alton Carter

“the person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Reading literature makes us better people.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

— Earl Nightingale

“There are more writers who read than readers who write.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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 book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.”

— Charles Van Doren

“It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading.”

— Stillness Speaks by Eckart Tolle

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

“Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.”

— Verne Harnish