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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
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

2.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles

3.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

4.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian

6.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Edwards, Tryon

7.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Mccosh

12.
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.
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.

14.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

15.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

17.
A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
Steinbeck, John

18.
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''

19.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

20.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven

21.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Pound, Ezra

22.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor

23.
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

24.
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

25.
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
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

27.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

28.
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Twain, Mark

29.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Trollope, Anthony

32.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

33.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere

34.
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

35.
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Horowitz, Lois

36.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

37.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert

38.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Disney, Walt

39.
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
More, Hannah

40.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy

41.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert

42.
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Johnson, Samuel

43.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert

44.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire

45.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.

46.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo

47.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony

48.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

49.
The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.
Cutler, Wade E.

50.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas


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