Quotes about Learning

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

Anyone who fails to consult the explanatory notes and the list of abbreviations at the beginning of a dictionary has only himself to blame if he is not able to use it well.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

2. STUDY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

4. If the book is a new one with a dust jacket, READ THE PUBLISHER'S BLURB.

6. Finally, TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge

The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.

your primary obligation is not to become competent in the subject matter but instead to understand the problem.

Francis Bacon once remarked that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Reading a book analytically is chewing and digesting it.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.