Hearing someone compare reading to robbery.

He said, reading is a legitimate form of theft, the lowest threshold and highest return borrowing of life in this world.
You can take a genius's lifetime of thinking for the price of a cup of coffee;
you can finish reading what others have stumbled over for decades in just a few hours.
This is not learning; this is cheating.
This is the cheapest and most affordable time-travel in human history.
If you don't read, your three views are actually shaped by the few people closest to you.
Your level of cognition and your thinking height are the average level of them.
And reading can allow you, even if you are in the gutter, to directly converse with emperors from over 2000 years ago, philosophers from over 100 years ago, and the top experts.
You think the pain and confusion you experience are unique, and no one can understand them.
But reading will make you realize: everything you've experienced has been experienced, suffered, and solved by countless smart people long ago.
The answers are in the books!