Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

- Martineau, Harriet

Best Quotes about Books - reading

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Gissing, George Robert

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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

Rochman, Hazel

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

Gibbon, Edward

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''

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Byron, Lord

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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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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

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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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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wesley, John

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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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