Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The newest books are those that never grow old.

- Jackson, George Holbrook

Best Quotes about Books - reading

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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

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

Dawkins, John

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Whitman, Walt

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hadas, Moses

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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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

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Camus, Albert

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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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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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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hope, Anthony

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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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