Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Barrett, E.S.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Kirk, E.N.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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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

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

Murray, William

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Carey, Joyce

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.

Hadas, Moses

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

Hunt, Leigh

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Barrett, E.S.

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Kingsley, Charles

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Coolio

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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

Twain, Mark

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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