Arise Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.

— Govinda

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and…

— Helen Keller

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

— Richard Hamming

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what…

— Agnes Martin

“Writing means organizing your thoughts. If your mind is scattered, your writing is scattered. If your mind is focused, your writing will be clear.…

— Robert Peate

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer