Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

No furniture is so charming as books.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Chappell, Warren

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

Barrett, E.S.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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

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

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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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 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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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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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 always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Gissing, George Robert

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Byron, Lord

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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

Asimov, Isaac

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

Locke, John

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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bach, Richard

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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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.

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

Carey, Joyce