Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

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.

Albert EinsteinPhysicist · German · 1879 – 1955
More from Albert Einstein
Book QuotesArt Quotes
#Age
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. — David Herbert Lawrence
  • The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein
  • True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
  • The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. — Albert Einstein
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026