William James Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

  William James

  Children, Reading, Sky

• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

  William James

  Bible, Religious, Book

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

• As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

  William James

  Reading, Book, Trying

• As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Wise, Art, Reading

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.22.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin