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Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
Sinyavsky, Andre

3.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Chambers, Oswald

4.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

5.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

6.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward

7.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb

8.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet

9.
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

10.
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.

11.
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Tsvetaeva, Marina

12.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

13.
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire

15.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

16.
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

17.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Crane, Frank

18.
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Twain, Mark

19.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

20.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

24.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Phillips, Wendell

25.
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

26.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

27.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert

28.
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.

29.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

30.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

31.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb, American

32.
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

33.
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
Rhys, Jean

34.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

35.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Edwards, Tryon

36.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Neruda, Pablo

37.
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

38.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

39.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell

40.
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

41.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

42.
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Bennett, Arnold

44.
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

45.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony

46.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
McKenna, Richard

47.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

48.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Fuentes, Carlos

49.
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

50.
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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