Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Faulkner, William

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

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Murray, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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Horowitz, Lois

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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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

Bach, Richard

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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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

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

Asimov, Isaac

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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 pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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

Ruskin, John

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Voltaire

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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.

Hazlitt, William

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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Ruskin, John

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas