Reading Is To The Mind What Exercise Quotes

#1. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

#2. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.

Pat Williams

#3. Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

John Geddes

#5. There are no bad books.
Reading is reading and the mind will benefit from the exercise regardless of the content.

Kade Cook

#6. Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#7. The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Billy Graham