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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.
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Miller, Henry

2.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

3.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

4.
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.

5.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Hardwick, Elizabeth

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 will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

8.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward

10.
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert

12.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham

13.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

14.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

15.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John

16.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell

17.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

18.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

19.
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

20.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Tsvetaeva, Marina

22.
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
Sinyavsky, Andre

23.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
Buckingham, Duke of

24.
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

25.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Bevan, Aneurin

26.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank

27.
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Lejeune, Caroline

28.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar

30.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida

31.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

36.
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.

37.
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.

38.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Hazlitt, William

39.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah

40.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Chambers, Oswald

41.
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

42.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

43.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac

44.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Disney, Walt

46.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Murray, William

47.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

48.
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.

49.
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
Johnson

50.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin


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