Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

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.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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''

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

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.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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

Lee, Spike

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lytton, Lord Edward

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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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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

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Secondat, Charles de

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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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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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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 man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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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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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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

Carey, Joyce

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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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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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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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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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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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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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

Byron, Lord

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Tupper, Martin

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

Bach, Richard

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.