Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Gibbon, Edward

Best Quotes about Books - reading

To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Faulkner, William

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

Rohn, Jim

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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

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

Harington, John

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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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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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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

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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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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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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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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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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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson