Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Ruskin, John

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hugo, Victor

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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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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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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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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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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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

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hood, Thomas

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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

Brown, Les