Walter B. Pitkin > Quotes

“You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.”
― Walter Pitkin, The Art Of Rapid Reading: A Book For People Who Want To Read Faster And More Accurately

“Ler é a cultura do coração e da alma, em sua mais elevada forma.”
― Walter Pitkin

“The boundary between stupidity and intelligence cannot be drawn with a straight-edged ruler. It is rather a no-man’s land, a zone between two immense forces which sometimes are at war and sometimes drowsing through an armistice.”
― Walter B. Pitkin, A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity