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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook

3.
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Miller, Henry

4.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere

5.
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.

6.
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

7.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Lee, Spike

8.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

10.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Bruyere, Jean De La

11.
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

12.
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

13.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

14.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn

15.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim

16.
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

17.
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

18.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord

20.
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

21.
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.

22.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.

23.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

24.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John

25.
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

26.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

27.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Crane, Frank

28.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

29.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Brookner, Anita

30.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven

31.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius

33.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.

34.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Baker, Nicholson

35.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac

36.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony

37.
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

38.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Channing, William Ellery

39.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

40.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

41.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

42.
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

43.
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

44.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank

45.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

46.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Phillips, Wendell

47.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

48.
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

49.
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.

50.
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.


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