To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.


The collected works of Aldous Huxley (ed. 1959)


To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering...

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering...

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering...

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering...