Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Books - reading

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Barstow, Stan

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Carter, Angela

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Harington, John

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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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

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

Lytton, Lord Edward

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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

Milton, John

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.

Hadas, Moses

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

Pound, Ezra

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy