Book: How to read books

Well-read often means quantity, and only sometimes - quality of reading.

To have fun is much easier than to learn, but much harder to understand than it is caused. Beauty is more elusive notion than truth.

Enough to fill many books, because they will not bring us benefit and power, if not carefully will presuem carefully and do not overcook them.

The process of becoming a person goes through the realization of how little we know and can do.

Someone who knows how to read well, to listen and speak has a disciplined mind. Such discipline is essential to freedom of the use of our abilities.

Awareness of limits of own knowledge strengthens us in his wisdom.

A bad narrator can easily spoil a good story.

Sustained disagreements of philosophers sometimes help to identify the great unresolved - and sometimes even unsolvable problems.

The understanding of the book the reader almost gets him close to the level of the author.

Worse, we use words, the more likely an accused in the cleverness of others.

In any case, [the series] "five foot shelf" is a perfect example of what not to do, if we want to save their brains from St. Vitus's dance.

In most cases, the text of the books in this series are published in full, but sometimes there are just large chunks. But nobody recommends that you review the book or read some part of it. Therefore, you are invited to collect a little nectar there, sniff a little honey here. Fine, but you will become a regular literary tie, and not a proficient reader.

They picked up the book and soon could tell that it is not so. They are simply bursting with feelings of self-importance, but because the book in their Arsenal was just an excuse for narcissism. Hardly such people can be called readers. Rather, they would be correct to classify those who consider the conversation is an occasion for self-assertion and monologue. With these people there is no sense to talk, listen to them usually is not worth it.

We repeat the folly of the ancient Athenians, who had decided that Socrates died, having taken the Hemlock.