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

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

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Benjamin, Walter

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

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

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

Wycherley, William

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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

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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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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

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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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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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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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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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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

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

Lee, Spike

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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

Coolio

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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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

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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

Wesley, John

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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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