"Master those books you have. Read them..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.
More by Charles Spurgeon
“Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.”
“Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.”
“Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.”
More on Reading
“The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.”
“We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.”
“Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.”
More on Learning
“Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.”
“I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.”
“Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.”