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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
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
Orwell, George

2.
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Sterne, Laurence

3.
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

4.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

5.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

6.
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

7.
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

8.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Brodsky, Joseph

9.
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
Miller, Henry

10.
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

11.
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

12.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas

13.
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

14.
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

15.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

16.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

17.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward

18.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

19.
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

20.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

21.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

22.
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Wells, Carolyn

23.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook

24.
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

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

28.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert

29.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert

30.
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
Cuyler, Theodore L.

31.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim

32.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.

33.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset

35.
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

36.
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
Ruskin, John

37.
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.

38.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine

39.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto

40.
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
Rushdie, Salman

41.
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James

42.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

43.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Kempis, Thomas

44.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

45.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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.

49.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

50.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin


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