Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Bennett, Arnold

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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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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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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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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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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 entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marcel, Anthony

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

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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

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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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

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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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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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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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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet