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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
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

2.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Seferis, Giorgos

3.
The book you don't read won't help.
Rohn, Jim

4.
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.

5.
I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.
Levine, Ghita

6.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

7.
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

8.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren

9.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Horowitz, Lois

11.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Kirk, E.N.

12.
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson

13.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

14.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates

15.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Neruda, Pablo

16.
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

17.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William

18.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Traherne, Thomas

19.
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David

20.
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.
Benjamin, Walter

21.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.

22.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean

23.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian

24.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

26.
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Channing, William Ellery

30.
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.

31.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole

32.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Adler, Mortimer J.

34.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Carter, Angela

35.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Kieran, John

36.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

38.
After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.
Lawrence, D. H.

39.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

40.
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

41.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell

42.
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.

43.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn

44.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius

45.
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Wells, Carolyn

46.
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

47.
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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