Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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

Bach, Richard

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Neruda, Pablo

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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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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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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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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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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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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Harington, John

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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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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Morely, John

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

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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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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean