Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Marcel, Anthony

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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

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

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

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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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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

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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

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

Bach, Richard

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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

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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

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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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 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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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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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

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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

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert