Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

- Davies, Paul

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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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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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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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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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Traherne, Thomas

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pound, Ezra

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Ruskin, John

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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.

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

Lee, Spike

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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

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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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

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William