Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Lytton, Lord Edward

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

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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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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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Brown, Les

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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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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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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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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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jackson, Holbrook