Academic Reading Quotes

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.

I have always been into reading serious material.

Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.