Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Hadas, Moses

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Frost, Robert

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

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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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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 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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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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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Fielding, Henry

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Locke, John

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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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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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.