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

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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
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Hubbard, Elbert
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William
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
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Morely, John
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Huxley, Aldous
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Rohn, Jim
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
Cooley, Charles Horton
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel
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.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Rostand, Jean
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Luther, Martin
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin
A wicked book cannot repent.
Proverb
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Chambers, Oswald
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
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
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
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Davies, Robertson
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
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Benjamin, Walter
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Swartz, J.
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
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Gibbon, Edward
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
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.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert
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
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John
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