Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Voltaire

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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

Dawkins, John

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joubert, Joseph

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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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 book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Pound, Ezra

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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Gibbon, Edward

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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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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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates