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Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet. — Sandra Cisneros

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

A man who does not read miss great wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I began thinking that this was a guy who displayed his books the way another guy might display his animal trophies. — Adam Rex

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. — Lauren Mayberry

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think. — Seung Sahn

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us. — Julia Alvarez

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. — Joseph Brodsky

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious. — Pete Hamill

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. — Tommy Lee

To be successful, suspend your worries and your analytical thinking and just concentrate on reading the script as it is without any self-judgment. — Forbes Robbins Blair

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther

People stop thinking when they cease to read. — Denis Diderot

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger. — Confucius

Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done. — Mark Driscoll

You will discover all that pertains to life by reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"? — John Gallagher Jr.

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. — Laura Vandervoort

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. — Jonathan Swift

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. — Juno Temple

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it. — Clive James

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking! — John Green

Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as real work. — Parker J. Palmer

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads — Ronald T. Potter-Efron

We must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking. — Ben Casnocha

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness. — Lily Koppel

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. — Charles Lamb

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. — Charles Lamb

In tactics, no information is better than too much ... because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking. — Giovanni Guidetti

It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months ... than to read 12 entertaining books every month. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the invaluable mental power we call judgment. — Sam Wineburg

Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking. — Ian McEwan

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. — Charles Scribner Jr.

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see. — Shandy L. Kurth

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers. — Jeffery Deaver

Think before you speak. Read before you think. — Fran Lebowitz

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown

Don't just read books that are best-sellers or books that you agree with, challenge your own thinking as you're reading. — Rowena Crosbie

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play. — Guthrie Govan

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable ... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.' — Zosia Mamet

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. — Rebecca Eaton

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer. — Jonah Lehrer

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. — Doris Lessing

If anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. — Bruce Schneier

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang

The stories I read, strengthen my spirit in any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I learned on my own I still remember — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping. — Kathryn Stockett

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading. — Sarah Dessen

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality. — S.A. Tawks

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science. — Graham Kendall

You can develop positive mindset with reading of awe-inspired writings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. — Edward Gibbon

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. — V.C. Andrews

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. — Robert Henri

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts. — Miranda Cosgrove

But sometimes in my reading I would discover new insights or have seemingly profound thoughts that would change my way of thinking. — Amy Harmon

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk

In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more. — Rob Zerban

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter — Jim Rohn

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. — Harper Lee

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. — Sylvia Plath

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them. — John Mark Reynolds

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity. — Amit Ray

The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ... — Wallace Stevens

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley

Most of these men's lives were so tortured that I enjoyed reading about them, thinking, well, I am in hell too and I can't even write music. — Charles Bukowski

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. — Dwight Yoakam

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. — William Hazlitt

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should. — Brian Chippendale

Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading. — Nathanael Emmons

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant

Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking. — April Genevieve Tucholke

That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen

Explore new learning adventures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. — Victoria Connelly

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. — Robert Breault

Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing."

Unknown — Danny L. Deaube

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. — Aman Jassal

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground. — A.W. Tozer