"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." — Edmund Burke

More Digesting Quotes

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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. — Edmund Burke
• I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. — Francesca Annis
• About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision,… — J. C. R. Licklider
• It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial… — Unknown Author
• Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work,… — Hanif Kureishi
• Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to… — Timothy Keller
• Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only… — Rodney Collin
• Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian… — Unknown Author
• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they… — Gioachino Rossini
• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and… — John Doerr
• Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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