Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Phelps, William Lyon

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Descartes, Rene

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chappell, Warren

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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

Gibbon, Edward

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, American

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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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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Critchfield, Jim

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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.

Hadas, Moses

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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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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

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas