Albert EinsteinSomebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
About This Quote
The person who only reads newspapers and books written by contemporary authors looks to me like somebody who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. This person is extremely near-sighted. He can't see anything outside of his own little world, and as such makes many mistakes in judgment.
Some Similar Quotes
- A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open,...
- We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
- Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
More Quotes By Albert Einstein
- Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
- Love is a better master than duty.
- No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.