Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Twain, Mark

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

Calano, Jimmy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

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

Proverb, American

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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''

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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.

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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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

Tupper, Martin

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rohn, Jim