Cong Fang

C. H. Spurgeon

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them, masticate and digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.'”

精讀你手頭的書，全面、徹底地掌握裡面的內容。將自己沉浸其中，一遍又一遍不停地讀，咀嚼、消化、吸收，直到那些知識成為你自己的。好書值得反覆閱讀、做筆記、認真思考。如果你照做了，你會發現，精讀一本書對你的知識結構的影響，遠勝過瀏覽二十本書。馬馬虎虎的閱讀只能讓你更加無知，而且莫名驕傲。有些人為了多讀書而停止思考，這使他們失去了思考能力。讓這句話成為你讀書的座右銘：“少讀多想”。

from J. Oswald Sanders, “Spiritual Leadership”