„You read too much and understand too little.“
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
Moiraine Damodred
(15 September 1992)
Origine: The Shadow Rising
„Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?“
From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway6
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— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Contesto: Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
„You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.“
— Oscar Wilde, libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.“
— Oscar Wilde, libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.“
— Markus Zusak Australian author 1975
Origine: I Am the Messenger
„Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/category/jim-brewer/ mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer.
Misattributed
Variante: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Origine: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
„Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.“
— Sarah Orne Jewett, libro The Country of the Pointed Firs
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5
— Irwin Shaw American politician 1913 - 1984
Variante: There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 348]
— Diane Setterfield, libro The Thirteenth Tale
Origine: The Thirteenth Tale
— Flannery O’Connor American novelist, short story writer 1925 - 1964
Origine: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
— Jorge Luis Borges, libro Altre inquisizioni
"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw"
Variant translation: A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time — this one, for instance — as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.
Other Inquisitions (1952)
