Quotes About Reading

Remember Bacon's recommendation to the reader: "Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

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

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.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

É um erro acreditar que ler muito e ler bem são a mesma coisa.

Reading and the Democratic Ideal of Education

If you are reading a book that can increase your understanding, it stands to reason that not all of its words will be completely intelligible to you. If you proceed as if they were all ordinary words, all on the same level of general intelligibility as the words of a newspaper article, you will make no headway toward interpretation of the book. You might just as well be reading a newspaper, for the book cannot enlighten you if you do not try to understand it.

The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading

The first stage of elementary reading—reading readiness—corresponds to pre-school and kindergarten experiences.

Many readers fear that it would be disloyal to their commitment to stand apart and impersonally question what they are reading. Yet this is necessary whenever you read analytically.

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.

It is wasteful to read a book slowly that deserves only a fast reading; speed reading skills can help you solve that problem.

a arte de ler é a técnica de apanhar qualquer tipo de comunicação.

If you read for understanding, reading for information will usually take care of itself.

We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies.

Analytical reading is thorough reading, complete reading, or good reading—the best reading you can do.

STEP 5 IN SYNTOPICAL READING: ANALYZING THE DISCUSSION

Skimming or pre-reading is the first sublevel of inspectional reading. Your main aim is to discover whether the book requires a more careful reading.

Every book, no matter how difficult, contains interstitial material that can be and should be read quickly; and every good book also contains matter that is difficult and should be read very slowly.

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

We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less will satisfy the needs of the world that is coming.

outside help should be sought whenever a book remains unintelligible to you, either in whole or part, after you have done your best to read it according to the rules of intrinsic reading.