When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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 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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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.