Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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

Luther, Martin

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Hunt, Leigh

Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

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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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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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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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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

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

Wycherley, William

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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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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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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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.

Fuentes, Carlos

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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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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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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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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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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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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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Voltaire

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian