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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
- Johnson
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.
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

3.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Pound, Ezra

4.
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''

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

6.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

7.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.
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

10.
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
Thurber, James

11.
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

12.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

13.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

15.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

16.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
Buckingham, Duke of

17.
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Brown, Les

18.
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

19.
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

20.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

21.
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

22.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Carter, Angela

23.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Traherne, Thomas

25.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Bevan, Aneurin

26.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

27.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

28.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

29.
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

30.
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

31.
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

32.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

33.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

34.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce

36.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

37.
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

38.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

39.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean

40.
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George

41.
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

42.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim

43.
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

44.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

45.
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

46.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Kempis, Thomas

47.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida

48.
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Twain, Mark

49.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Lee, Harper

50.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.


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