Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

- Trevelyan, G. M.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Coolio

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Fuller, Margaret

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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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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Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rohn, Jim

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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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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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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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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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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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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

Byron, Lord

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

Asimov, Isaac

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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

Sandwell, B. K.

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

Temple, Sir William

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

Calano, Jimmy

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John