Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Baker, Nicholson

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

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Neruda, Pablo

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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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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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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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

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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

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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

Sandwell, B. K.

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

Brookner, Anita

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Brown, Les

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Byron, Lord

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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

Rohn, Jim

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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Whitman, Walt

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Johnson

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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

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

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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

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John