Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Books - reading

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Bach, Richard

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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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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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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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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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

Baldwin, James

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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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 worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, American

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.

Hadas, Moses

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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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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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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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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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

Frost, Robert

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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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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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Whitman, Walt

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carey, Joyce

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Pound, Ezra