Book Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Anonymous

Reading begets reading.

— Nick Hornby

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorisms

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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 an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

— David L. Ulin

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp

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

— Jay Blades