Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Books - reading

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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

Parker, Dorothy

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

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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 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

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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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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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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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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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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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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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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.

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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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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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

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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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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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Porter, Noah

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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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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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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Coolio

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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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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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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

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

Faulkner, William

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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