Doe 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

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

— Claire Messud

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point.…

— Steven Pinker

I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.

— Robert Barry