"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
It never ceases to amaze me how people will read something once and run with it. I have always been one to wonder why it is so. It is for this reason that once I read something, I have to pick it apart to completely understand it. This is to me the difference between reading and studying. I want to truly understand what I read so that when someone asks me my opinion about what I have read, I can give it to them. Don't just repeat back what you take in, because that's not your opinion. You are simply stating the author's position. To be in agreement is cool, but etymologically can you explain why the point makes the sense that it does to you? Do you REALLY understand the background of the text you are discussing? If not.......you are cheating yourself out of a wealth of knowledge, and in turn misleading the poor sap that's actually paying attention to your foolishness!
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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