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Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

2.
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

3.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Adler, Mortimer J.

4.
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George

5.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

6.
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

7.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

8.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

9.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Trollope, Anthony

10.
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John

11.
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

12.
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

13.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

14.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

16.
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

17.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

18.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Chambers, Oswald

19.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

20.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn

21.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

22.
Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.
Gross, Jacquelyn

23.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Bloom, Allan

24.
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

25.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.

26.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

27.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

28.
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

29.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

30.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Mallarme, Stephane

31.
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

32.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

33.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert

34.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

36.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Brodsky, Joseph

37.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

38.
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

39.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Pound, Ezra

40.
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

41.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

42.
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

43.
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Barrow

44.
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

45.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
Barrie, Sir James M.

46.
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

47.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Brooke, Rupert

48.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Aubrey, John

49.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

50.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur


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