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How to Read a Book

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Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened. The point, however, is not to stop at being informed. — location: 325 ^ref-47632

If you insist on understanding everything on every page before you go on to the next, you will not get very far. — location: 701 ^ref-23089

You will miss the forest for the trees. You will not be reading well on any level. — location: 704 ^ref-54721

he does not know what he is looking for and does not know when he has found it. — location: 724 ^ref-21291

To fall asleep or, what is the same, to let your mind wander during the hours you planned to devote to reading for profit—that is, primarily for understanding—is clearly to defeat your own ends. — location: 809 ^ref-12220

there are at least five styles of exposition that have been employed by the great philosophers of the Western tradition. The student or reader of philosophy should be able to distinguish between them and know the advantages and disadvantages of each. — location: 4236 ^ref-10509