Digestion Quote by Robert South Download Open image “Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.” — Robert South ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Digestion Eating Reading Useless
Reading without understanding is like swallowing food without chewing. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“It's not good...Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. -… — Mark Mills Copy Share Image
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy it, but… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being… — Robert South Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion… — Robert South Copy Share Image
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. — Robert South Copy Share Image
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are… — Virchand Raghavji Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion. — Harley Pasternak Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
