Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Dawkins, John

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

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wesley, John

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Proverb, American

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Voltaire

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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Whitman, Walt

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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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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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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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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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.