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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
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
Milton, John

2.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.
Colton, Charles Caleb

3.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.
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

5.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

6.
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Wells, Carolyn

7.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Terry, Helen

8.
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb

9.
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

10.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.
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

12.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

13.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah

14.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

15.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord

16.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

17.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Kempis, Thomas

18.
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

19.
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

20.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

21.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Neruda, Pablo

22.
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

23.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert

24.
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Barrow

25.
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

26.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord

27.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

28.
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

29.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
Hood, Paxton

30.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank

31.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Chambers, Oswald

32.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

36.
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

37.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Miller, Henry

38.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Barrett, E.S.

39.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Rochman, Hazel

40.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor

41.
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

42.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.

43.
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

44.
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

45.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

46.
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

47.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren

48.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses

49.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt

50.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook


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