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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
- Ruskin, John
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Johnson, Samuel

2.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.

3.
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

4.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.

5.
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
Miller, Henry

6.
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

7.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

8.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere

9.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony

10.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Swartz, J.

11.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.
Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.
Gross, Jacquelyn

13.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert

14.
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

15.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus, Desiderius

16.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Hardwick, Elizabeth

17.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.

18.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William

19.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John

20.
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George

21.
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert

23.
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

24.
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

25.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

26.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert

28.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida

29.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord

30.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.

31.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.
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

33.
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

34.
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
Cuyler, Theodore L.

35.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

36.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh

37.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond

38.
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
Styron, William

39.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce

40.
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

41.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Rohn, Jim

42.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas

43.
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

44.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

45.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac

46.
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

47.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.
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

50.
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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