Century Quote by Thomas A. Edison

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very…

— Grabe

We always wish that we could read others minds for us to understand them.. Have you ever thought if God gave us the power…

— Nushra

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

— Harold Bloom

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph…

— Daniel Dennett

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never…

— Maryanne Wolf

“There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the way it…

— Shunya