Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Brown, Les

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Camus, Albert

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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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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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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

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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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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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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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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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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

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Coolio

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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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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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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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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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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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.