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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
- Carlyle, Thomas
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian

2.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

3.
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

4.
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy

5.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

6.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb

7.
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

8.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

9.
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

10.
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.

11.
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

12.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine

13.
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

14.
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

15.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire

16.
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

17.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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.

21.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

22.
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

23.
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

24.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

25.
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

26.
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

27.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney

28.
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

29.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah

30.
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

31.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius

32.
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

33.
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

34.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire

35.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.
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

37.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

38.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren

39.
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

40.
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

41.
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

42.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

43.
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

44.
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

45.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

46.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles

47.
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.

48.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

49.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

50.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Gibbon, Edward


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