Books Quotes

• "The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal "blocks" or "bites" of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental "picture" and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant."
  By: Wade E. Cutler
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• "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"
  By: Jim Rohn
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• "Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Read not to contradict and confute?nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
  By: Sir Francis Bacon
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• "In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Learn as much by writing as by reading."
  By: Lord Acton
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• "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
  By: Groucho Marx
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• "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
  By: G K Chesterton
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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."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
  By: Voltaire
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• "No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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• "The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
  By: G K Chesterton
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• "It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
  By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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• "Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
  By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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• "Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
  By: Sir Francis Bacon
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