Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Byron, Lord

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hood, Thomas

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

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

Tupper, Martin

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

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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

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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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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.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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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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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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

Baker, Nicholson

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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

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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

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hope, Anthony

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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

Rochman, Hazel