Sydney Smith Quotes

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

I have only one body, which is the home of my spirit; therefore, I cherish my body.

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.