Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Byron, Lord

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

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Lawrence, D. H.

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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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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Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Morely, John

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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 reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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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The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Bach, Richard

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.

Hadas, Moses

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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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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Kingsley, Charles