Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Hunt, Leigh

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Fuentes, Carlos

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

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

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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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 give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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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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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

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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'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

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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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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

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Voltaire

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Whitman, Walt

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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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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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Dawkins, John

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Marcel, Anthony

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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

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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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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.