Accounts Quote by Anonymous

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there is no…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Your body will forget, but your mind often doesn't.

— Anonymous

Reading is more important to me than eating.

— John Piper

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has…

— Lorrie Moore

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read,…

— Simone Weil

The body remembers what your mind forgets.

— Martha Manning

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

I can remember what I ate in the most important moments in my life.

— Ayesha Curry

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you…

— Gichin Funakoshi