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«When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before»
«You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.»
«When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.»
«While we read history we make history.»
«When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.»
Author: Harold S. Geneen (Businessman) | About: Reading | Keywords: mastered, meanings
«When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.»
«You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.»
Author: Ray Bradbury | About: Reading | Keywords: burn, culture, destroy, Their culture
«When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.»
«When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted»
«You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Reading | Keywords: Kant