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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
- Mencken, H. L.
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joubert, Joseph

2.
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

3.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin

7.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Thackeray, William M.

8.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

9.
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

10.
The book you don't read won't help.
Rohn, Jim

11.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

13.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
Ruskin, John

14.
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

15.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire

16.
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
Cuyler, Theodore L.

17.
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim

19.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.

20.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

21.
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

22.
Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.
Calano, Jimmy

23.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

25.
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
Rushdie, Salman

26.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

27.
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

28.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward

29.
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

30.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto

31.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

32.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord

33.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

34.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

35.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

36.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

37.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

38.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

39.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo

40.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

41.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Mann, Horace

42.
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

43.
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
Sinyavsky, Andre

44.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

45.
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.

46.
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

47.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Luther, Martin

48.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook

49.
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.
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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