Mind Quote by Samael Aun Weor

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

— Charles Darwin

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

— Nick Petrie

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

— Karl Marx

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

— Manuel Puig