Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Lytton, Lord Edward

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Frost, Robert

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Dawkins, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Traherne, 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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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery

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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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

Secondat, Charles de

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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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 as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Rohn, Jim

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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

Gibbon, Edward

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Carey, Joyce

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace