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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
- Disraeli, Benjamin
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Phillips, Wendell

2.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

3.
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John

4.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Gissing, George Robert

5.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

6.
Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.
Gross, Jacquelyn

7.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

8.
The book you don't read won't help.
Rohn, Jim

9.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane

10.
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

11.
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

12.
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

13.
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

14.
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

15.
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

17.
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

18.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim

19.
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.
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.

21.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

22.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.
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

24.
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.
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.

26.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

27.
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.

28.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

29.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius

30.
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

31.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

36.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor

37.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

38.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

39.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.
Hemingway, Ernest

41.
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson

42.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

43.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

44.
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard

45.
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

46.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

47.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.

48.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

49.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

50.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John


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