Body Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in…

— Isaac Watts

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with…

— Woodrow Wilson

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

— Jeremy Collier

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books…

— Sydney Smith

“A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise, because he likes it; and that is probably the…

— Arthur Christopher Benson

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

— Pope John XXIII

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another,…

— David Lodge

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson