Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

- Gibbon, Edward

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

'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

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

Byron, Lord

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Johnson

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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

Morely, John

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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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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

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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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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rohn, Jim

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

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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

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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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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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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark