Motivational Quotes

Books

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best Quotes about Books

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Josh Lieb

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with'em, then we grow out of'em and leave'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot

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There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

Anna Quindlen

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

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I read part of it all the way through.