Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Harington, John

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

Brown, Les

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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

Whitman, Walt

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

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

Gibbon, Edward

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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

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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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 books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

Milton, John

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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

Hope, Anthony

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

Hugo, Victor

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