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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
- Rohn, Jim
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar

2.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Balfour, Arthur James

3.
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

4.
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin

8.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas

9.
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.

10.
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

11.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

12.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

13.
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Mencken, H. L.

14.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin

15.
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

16.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

17.
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

18.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon

19.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John

20.
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.

21.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert

22.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy

23.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

24.
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

25.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

26.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven

27.
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.

28.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

29.
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret

30.
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Johnson, Samuel

31.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

32.
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

33.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

34.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.

35.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fuller, Margaret

36.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal, Henri B.

38.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
Day, Clarence

39.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
Geneen, Harold S.

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.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah

42.
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.

43.
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
Cooley, Charles Horton

44.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

45.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

46.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas

47.
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.
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

49.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

50.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Gibbon, Edward


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