Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
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 furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.