Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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

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

Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Luther, Martin

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Hope, Anthony

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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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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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

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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 book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Faulkner, William

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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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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Tupper, Martin

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko, Yoshida

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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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When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

Baldwin, James

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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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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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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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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John