Avoiding Quote by Arthur Helps

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

— 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 without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

— Confucius

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

— James Patterson

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

— Eddie Griffin

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

— John Locke

Reading is a bridge to thought.

— Maryanne Wolf