Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Gibbon, Edward

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Bach, Richard

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Voltaire

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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''

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Blackie, Professor

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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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

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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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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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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Kirk, E.N.

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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

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Byron, Lord

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.