“As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” ArtCertainReadingKnowingWiseStageBeing Wise Author:William James
“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.” MenBookCharacterReadingKnowingRichWiseReaderPreparationProfitable Book:Tablets Source: Tablets
“It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.” KnowsCharacterReadingFunLinesKnowing Author:Shane Dawson
“I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.” IfsMayChildrenSometimesReadingKnowingDeedsSavedGood DeedsLibrarianBakersRest In PeaceAugusta Author:Audre Lorde
“There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.” PeopleBodyAbleReadingStrongKnowingRocksPositionLetting GoYour BodyClimbsTenacityStrong People Author:Chris Sharma
“Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.” PeopleIfsWantBookHappensLastsArtistReadingKnowingDirectorsPagesTensionCowardlySpoilers Author:Simon Pegg
“It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.” MenBookCoursesReadingUnderstandingKnowingCollegeResearchIncrediblesFascinatingMotivatedNot KnowingHooverJ Edgar HooverKnowing And UnderstandingCollege Courses Author:Dustin Lance Black
“I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsMadeBookNightReadingKnowingFansCryFiguresReaderCriticalTouchedReviewsMailAll NightUp All NightFan Mail Author:Jodi Picoult
“Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.” MenMayLittlesReadingUnderstandingKnowingJudgingJudgement Author:John Locke
“All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.” KnowsSpiritualCoursesReadingGrowthPracticeKnowingStudyReaderReflectionConcernedAimAcquireSpiritual Growth Author:Isidore of Seville
“Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that character, but it was really cool because, as we were figuring these characters out, I realized that there was a lot more backstory, rather than what I had gotten just from reading the book. Glenn doesn't really get much of a backstory there. He's just seen as this kid who is put in this situation, not knowing where his mind-set is, but then you slowly see him start to develop.” MindBookCharacterKidsWantedReadingSituationKnowingFansMaterialsSourceI RealizedNot KnowingReally CoolMind Set Author:Steven Yeun
“We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayShouldWritingMindMeanPersonsHas BeensCertainReadingSoundKnowingSeeingSubjectsMediaOffersMajorsVariousCommunicateRoutesLiteracyReally MeanReading And WritingFrame Of MindNew Media Author:Seymour Papert
“Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.” KnowsTryingKindLittlesEndsReadingDifficultSoundInterestingTalkingKnowingEffectsConnectionsCleverGuiltyNot Knowing Author:Billy Collins
“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.” FeelsKindPlayMomentsRememberReadingLanguageAcceptingKnowingUniversityBrownNot KnowingWorldlyUnderdogForeign LanguageFreshmanWaspsBrown University Author:Stephen Karam