Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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

Gibbon, Edward

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Barrett, E.S.

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

Byron, Lord

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Wells, Carolyn

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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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Carey, Joyce

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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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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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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.

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Carter, Angela

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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

Hugo, Victor

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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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