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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
- Benjamin, Walter
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Miller, Henry

2.
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

3.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
Eagleton, Terry

7.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh

8.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Miller, Henry

9.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

10.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

11.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

12.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell

13.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

14.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb

15.
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb

16.
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

17.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Shaw, George Bernard

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset

24.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

26.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

27.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Morely, John

28.
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

29.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Bury, Richard De

30.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles

31.
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

32.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

33.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

34.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony

35.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon

36.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

37.
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

38.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Brodsky, Joseph

39.
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''

40.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Whipple, Edwin P.

41.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Forster, Edward M.

42.
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David

43.
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

44.
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

45.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

46.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Trollope, Anthony

47.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.
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.

49.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John

50.
Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.
Calano, Jimmy


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