Books Quote by Rex Stout

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel…

— Rex Stout

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of…

— Sydney J. Harris

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“It was not possible to think except with one’s brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his…

— Stanisław Lem

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got…

— Ray Bradbury

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he…

— Dalai Lama

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison…

— Immanuel Kant

“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

— David Hume

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

“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

— Louis L'Amour

“Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true-that aren't really how we feel-but they're running through our heads…

— Jay Asher

“I wondered if [people] weren't psychic because they didn't have the ability, or because they didn't want to have it. [...] Later I'd come…

— Sonia Choquette