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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
- Brookner, Anita
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.

2.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh

3.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

4.
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
Carlyle, Thomas

5.
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Horowitz, Lois

6.
A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
Steinbeck, John

7.
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard

8.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

10.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert

11.
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Hardwick, Elizabeth

13.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Rosenbach, A. S. W.

14.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.

15.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

16.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine

17.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

18.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin

19.
You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

20.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Lawrence, D. H.

21.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy

22.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

23.
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Lejeune, Caroline

24.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

25.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

26.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

27.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

28.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

29.
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Johnson, Samuel

30.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia

31.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo

32.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

35.
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James

36.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

37.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

38.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

39.
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Miller, Henry

40.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fuller, Margaret

41.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Pound, Ezra

42.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

43.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Pound, Ezra

44.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Marx, Groucho

45.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Miller, Henry

46.
Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.
Calano, Jimmy

47.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.

48.
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
Eagleton, Terry

50.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.


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