Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I am a part of everything that I have read.

- Kieran, John

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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.

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

Forster, Edward M.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Tupper, Martin

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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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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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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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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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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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

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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

Mccay, James T.

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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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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

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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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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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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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