Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Proverb, American

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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

Blackie, Professor

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Murray, William

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Critchfield, Jim

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

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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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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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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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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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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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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

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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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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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 real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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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 world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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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

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Twain, Mark

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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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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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn