Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Gibbon, Edward

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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.

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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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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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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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

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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Whitman, Walt

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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.

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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

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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

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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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After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Byron, Lord

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Pascal, Blaise

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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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

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John