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

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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

Asimov, Isaac

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Morely, John

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

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Byron, Lord

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

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

Gibbon, Edward

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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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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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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 always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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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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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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

Descartes, Rene

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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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.