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

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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

Rohn, Jim

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Sinyavsky, Andre

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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

Rochman, Hazel

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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

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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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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

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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

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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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

Maclennan, Hugh

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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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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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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Morely, John

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tupper, Martin

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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La