Certain Quote by Helen Keller

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

— Robyn Davidson

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

— Harold Bloom

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

— John Locke

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind…

— Robertson Davies

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I…

— Victoria Chang

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

— Wallace D. Wattles

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

— Doris Lessing