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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Johnson

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Harington, John

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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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

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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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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, American

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Whitman, Walt

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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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

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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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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

Trevelyan, G. M.

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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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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Carter, Angela

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce