The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

The Course asks us to read its words slowly and carefully, thinking about what they mean. It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game. If we will do this with the Text, we will experience our old worldview being slowly dismantled and a new worldview arising in its place.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted...but to weigh and consider.

there was a big difference between what he knew from reading and what I had experienced at

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is what he will know.

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

And I have always had an especially great desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false, in order to see my way clearly in my actions, and to go forward with confidence in this life. It is true that, so long as I merely considered the customs of other men, I found hardly anything there about which to be confident, and that I noticed there was about as much diversity as I had previously found among the opinions of philosophers. Thus the greatest profit I derived from this was that, on seeing many things that, although they seem to us very extravagant and ridiculous, do not cease to be commonly accepted and approved among other great peoples, I learned not to believe anything too firmly of which I had been persuaded only by example and custom; and thus I little by little freed myself from many errors that can darken our natural light and render us less able to listen to reason. But after I had spent some years thus studying in the book of the world and in trying to gain some experience, I resolved one day to study within myself too and to spend all the powers of my mind in choosing the paths that I should follow.