Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert
You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.
Arthur Schopenhauer • Works of Arthur Schopenhauer
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Twain
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
A man, therefore, should only read when the source of his own thoughts stagnates; which is often the case with the best of minds.
Arthur Schopenhauer • Works of Arthur Schopenhauer
Education—reading and meditating on the wisdom of great minds—is not to be done for its own sake. It has a purpose.
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
You have to be good at reading, and read good things.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury