Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Tupper, Martin

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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''

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Ruskin, John

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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

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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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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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

Secondat, Charles de

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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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The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.

Cutler, Wade E.

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coolio

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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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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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

Asimov, Isaac

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

Milton, John

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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 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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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

Spielberg, Steven

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Miller, Henry

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American