Books Quote by Pearl S. Buck

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after…

— Cecelia Ahern

People don't always read things the way they are intended.

— Kenneth Cole

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're…

— Brian Lamb

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

— Ethan Zuckerman

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

— Bryant H. McGill

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we…

— Thomas Pynchon

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

— Louis L'Amour

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

— Richard Hamming

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate…

— Nate Silver

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want…

— Sasha Grey