Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A library is thought in cold storage.

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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 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

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Gibbon, Edward

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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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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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

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

Faulkner, William

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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 house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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

Wesley, John

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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

Bach, Richard

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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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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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Secondat, Charles de