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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.

Best Quotes about Books - reading
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Brodsky, Joseph
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
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.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
France, Anatole
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
Davies, Paul
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
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.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.
A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
Steinbeck, John
The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.
Cutler, Wade E.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Bach, Richard
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 Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Keith, Sir Arthur
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
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
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
Sinyavsky, Andre
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney
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
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.
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
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Twain, Mark
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.
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
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt
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
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Terry, Helen
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
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
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
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
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
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.
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