Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Secondat, Charles de

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Byron, Lord

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

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

Carey, Joyce

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

Twain, Mark

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Asimov, Isaac

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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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

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

Gibbon, Edward

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

Rochman, Hazel

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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 will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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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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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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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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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.