“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”

“There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.”