Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Murray, William

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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''

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Wilde, Oscar

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Temple, Sir William

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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

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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

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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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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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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.

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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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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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

Trevelyan, G. M.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Harper

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Buckingham, Duke of

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook