Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A wicked book cannot repent.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Miller, Henry

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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

Rohn, Jim

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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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

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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

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

Barrett, E.S.

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Penn, 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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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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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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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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

Morely, John

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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.