Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

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

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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

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

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

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

Bach, Richard

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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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

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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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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 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

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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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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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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

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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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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Frost, Robert

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ruskin, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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