Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Howells, William Dean

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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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 book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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

Carey, Joyce

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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

Whitman, Walt

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Porter, Noah

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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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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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Benjamin, Walter

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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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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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

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gibbon, Edward

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Wells, Carolyn

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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.