“You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles from The Science of Being Great
Reading’s great. Thinking about what we read, and then living according to what we find true? Much better. Wattles quotes a few other luminaries to bring home his point that we need to think! A couple of ‘em:
Schopenhauer: “We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.”
Goethe: “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them really ours we must think them over again honestly till they take root in our personal expression.”
So whaddya think?
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