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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
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

2.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

3.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

4.
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

5.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

6.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

7.
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

8.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Rostand, Jean

9.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Rohn, Jim

10.
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Sterne, Laurence

11.
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

13.
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

14.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

15.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William

16.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Bradbury, Malcolm

18.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
Steele, Sir Richard

19.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Swartz, J.

20.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

21.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William

22.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

23.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean

24.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

25.
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
Faulkner, William

26.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.

27.
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

28.
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

29.
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.

30.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.

31.
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

32.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

33.
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

34.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

35.
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.
Benjamin, Walter

36.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

37.
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

38.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Miller, Henry

39.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Channing, William Ellery

40.
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard

41.
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

42.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

43.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert

44.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

45.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.
Hemingway, Ernest

46.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.
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

48.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
Kump, Peter

49.
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James

50.
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


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