Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.

A good speed reading course should therefore teach you to read at many different speeds, not just one speed that is faster than anything you can manage now. It should enable you to vary your rate of reading in accordance with the nature and complexity of the material.

If communications were not complex, structural outlining would be unnecessary. If language were a perfect medium instead of a relatively opaque one, there would be no need for interpretation. If error and ignorance did not circumscribe truth and knowledge, we should not have to be critical.

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Everyone needs a change of mental environment at regular periods, the same as a change and variety of food are essential. The mind becomes more alert, more elastic and more ready to work with speed and accuracy after it has been bathed in new ideas, outside of one's own field of daily labor.

It pays to know how to purchase knowledge.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.