Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Marcel, Anthony

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

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.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ruskin, John

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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Descartes, Rene

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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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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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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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 books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage