Direct Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

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 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 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 merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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 equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— John Locke

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

— Arthur Sch