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

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

Calano, Jimmy

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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

Marcel, Anthony

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Dawkins, John

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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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 printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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

Locke, John

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Asimov, Isaac

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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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.