Comments on: Thomas Carlyle’s Advice on Reading

By: Derrick Milligan introduces Josh Kaufman’s Personal MBA « Jeff Kelly Lowenstein’s Blog

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:31:48 +0000

[...] site also has a blog by Josh, who recently quoted the text of a letter by Thomas Carlyle about reading that I [...]

By: Olivier

Olivier — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:57:14 +0000

Thanks Josh for sharing this, I translated the letter in French and published it on my blog .

By: Comment lire, quoi lire et pourquoi : Les conseils de Thomas Carlyle

Comment lire, quoi lire et pourquoi : Les conseils de Thomas Carlyle — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:10:15 +0000

[...] Kaufman, créateur du Personal MBA, a récemment posté sur son blog cette lettre de l’écrivain, satiriste et historien écossais Thomas Carlyle, dans laquelle il [...]

By: Uma

Uma — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:47:44 +0000

Our very walking is an incessant falling – a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! http://ow.ly/s4yf

By: Keith Minikus

Keith Minikus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:05:59 +0000

That is absolutely incredible advice. The fact that we cannot know each other is beautiful and truly inspirational. If we think about it what I see is not what you see, as what I read is not what you read. Part of why I hated writing English papers in college…

By: Cesar

Cesar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:38 +0000

Great post!

Those are wise words, said by a wise man. I specially liked his pointer about learning history, your country’s and the world’s history. The mistakes and triumphs of men write the gilded (often bloody) pages of our past, and the least we can do is learn them and strive to be better.

And well, wasn’t Newton who first said that he had done so much because he had stood on the shoulders of giants? So we must try as well. Much knowledge that is handed down to us from masters from the past remains very useful (like this very letter shows) so it would be a nice idea to take a new look at Aristotle, Sun Tzu, and others who spoke of the true core nature of man.

By: melania

melania — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:23 +0000

Thank you so much for this!
I hope you will not mind, I’ve copied/pasted in my blog for other people to read it and mentioned you as a source…

Didn’t translate anything, coz I didn’t want the message to be lost.

Perfect, thanks!

Melania

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:48:30 +0000

Great advice.
“Not all readers are leaders but all leaders must be readers.” Harry S. Truman
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” Mark Twain