Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Secondat, Charles de

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Carter, Angela

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Kirk, E.N.

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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

Hood, Thomas

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Asimov, Isaac

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Rushdie, Salman

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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony