Book Reading Quotes

I can lend you my money not my books.

Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.

The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life.

Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

Authors do not need to offer us the answers to such weighty questions such as how to live and prepare us to accept death. The aim of a writer’s is to frame worldly questions that allow all readers too independently and jointly explore life-altering questions in a way that satisfies the fabric of thought corresponding to our respective times.

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it I who keep changing and seeing new things of which I was not previously aware? Or is reading a construction that assumes form, assembling a great number of variables, and therefore something that cannot be repeated twice according to the same pattern? Every time I seek to relive the emotion of a previous reading, I experience different and unexpected impressions, and do not find again those of before. At certain moments it seems to me that between one reading and the next there is a progression: in the sense, for example, of penetrating further into the spirit of the text, or of increasing my critical detachment. At other moments, on the contrary, I seem to retain the memory of the readings of a single book one next to another, enthusiastic or cold or hostile, scattered in time without a perspective, without a thread that ties them together. The conclusion I have reached is that reading is an operation without object; or that its true object is itself. The book is an accessory aid, or even a pretext.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.