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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
- Jackson, Holbrook
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

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

4.
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

5.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

6.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset

7.
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb

8.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Keith, Sir Arthur

10.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

11.
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.

12.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Lee, Harper

13.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.

15.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

16.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

17.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

18.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Murray, William

19.
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Seferis, Giorgos

21.
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.

22.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John

23.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean

24.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

25.
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

26.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert

27.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

28.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

29.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William

30.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

31.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook

32.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

33.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim

34.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Benjamin, Walter

35.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

36.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

37.
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

38.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Lee, Spike

39.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

40.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh

41.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

42.
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Brown, Les

43.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Sterne, Laurence

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.
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.
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

48.
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
Ruskin, John

49.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul

50.
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John


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