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

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Asimov, Isaac

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Harington, John

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Ruskin, John

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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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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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gibbon, Edward

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Coolio

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson

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

Morely, John

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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