Oneself Quote by Aldous Huxley

“One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”

— Aldous Huxley

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and…

— Aldous Huxley

“reading is the equivallent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Sch

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

— Anonymous

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer