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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Faulkner, William

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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hadas, Moses

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Marcel, Anthony

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

Trevelyan, G. M.

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

Locke, John