Arthur Schopenhauer wrote extensively on this and I feel he said it best. [Excessive reading] robs the mind of all elasticity; it is like keeping a spring unde

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote extensively on this and I feel he said it best. [Excessive reading] robs the mind of all elasticity; it is like keeping a spring under a continuous, heavy weight. If a man does not want to think, the safest way is to take up a book directly he has a spare moment. - "Thinking for Oneself" Contains a great quote by Pope Duncaid 3: "Forever reading, never to be read." Link: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter6.html https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...