Psychology Quote by Anonymous

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

— Steven Pinker

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept…

— Augustus Hare

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Tom Bissell

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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…

— Ben Okri

“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.…

— Steven Pinker

Reading is something most people do every day and I didn't know it would mean so much to me.

— Jay Blades