"The man who reads everything is like..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
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“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”
“Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.”
“Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.”
More on Reading
“We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.”
“I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.”
“Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you”
More on Learning
“When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.”
“When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
“If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.”