motivation quotes

• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe or take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
  
  - Francis Bacon
• To read without reflecting is like eating without digestion.
  
  - Edmund Burke
• Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents.
  
  - Ezra Pound
• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
  
  - Isaac Asimov
• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would not offend anybody, there would be very little printed.
  
  - Benjamin Franklin
• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
  
  - Socrates

• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  
  - Isaac Asimov
• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
  
  - E.M. Foster
• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
  
  - Isaac Asimov
• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
  
  - Charles Darwin
• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
  
  - Marie Curie
• Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
  
  - Giordano Bruno