Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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

Faulkner, William

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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

Tupper, Martin

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Marcel, Anthony

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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

Locke, John

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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

Hadas, Moses

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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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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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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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