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“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,”

— Noam Chomsky

“People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its…

— Joan Vass

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does not necessarily…

— Marie Sexton

“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

“I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary…

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us,…

— Nema Al-Araby

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.”

— George Sheehan