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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.
- Peters, Thomas J.
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

2.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon

3.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

4.
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

5.
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Davies, Robertson

6.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Rochman, Hazel

7.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert

8.
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.

9.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

10.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire

14.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.

15.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Marx, Groucho

16.
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.

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Lawrence, D. H.

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Keith, Sir Arthur

25.
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

26.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

27.
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

28.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.

29.
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.
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''

31.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.

32.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Trollope, Anthony

33.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy

34.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

35.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham

36.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

37.
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

38.
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

39.
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Luther, Martin

44.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Wolfe, Thomas

45.
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.

46.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

47.
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

48.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

49.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

50.
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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