Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Baker, Nicholson

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Hood, Thomas

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

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

Coolio

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

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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

Descartes, Rene

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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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.

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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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

Milton, John

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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

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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

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

Trevelyan, G. M.

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The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.

Cutler, Wade E.

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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

Dawkins, John

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Marcel, Anthony

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Kirk, E.N.

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

Lee, Spike

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.