Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Mallarme, Stephane

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Secondat, Charles de

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

Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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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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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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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One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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.

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Marcel, Anthony

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Carey, Joyce

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

Locke, John

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

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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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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, 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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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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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