Quote by Quintilian Download Open image ““Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.”” — Quintilian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!” — Jennifer Copy Share Image
“I like few things better than to have my work read and understood.” — William Blackwell Copy Share Image
“So it may be that reading your work aloud will not only improve its quality but save your life in the process.” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's not about how much you read, but, how much you work what you read.” — Unverified Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.” — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
