To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.