Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ruskin, John

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

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

Pascal, Blaise

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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

Butler, Samuel

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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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 is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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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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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bach, Richard

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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

Barstow, Stan

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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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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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

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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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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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel