Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Pound, Ezra

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

Baldwin, James

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bach, Richard

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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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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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Voltaire

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Asimov, Isaac

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Buckingham, Duke of

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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.