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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- Brodsky, Joseph
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
Thurber, James

2.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

4.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Lee, Spike

5.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.

6.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Bury, Richard De

7.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

8.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

10.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

11.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John

12.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac

13.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

14.
I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.
Levine, Ghita

15.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward

16.
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William

18.
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard

19.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

20.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren

21.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

22.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

23.
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.

24.
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

25.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

26.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim

27.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Wilde, Oscar

28.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

29.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
Hood, Paxton

30.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

31.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Channing, William Ellery

32.
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Kingsley, Charles

33.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

34.
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

35.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

36.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

37.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

38.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
Day, Clarence

39.
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David

40.
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''

41.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert

42.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

43.
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
Faulkner, William

44.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

45.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

46.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Bruyere, Jean De La

47.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles

48.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

49.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Gibbon, Edward

50.
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
Ruskin, John


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