Buying Books Quotes

• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Mistake, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.51, Publishdrive

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• I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Buying, Obsession

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• It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 11, 2017

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• If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Book, Buying

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

  Charlaine Harris

  Book, Reading, Vacation

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Reading, Buying

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• My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

  John Waters

  Life, Book, Fighting

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• Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Book, Littles

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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Heart

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• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  James Bryce

  Life Lesson, Book, Reading

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• [D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Healing, Hands

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• Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Kids, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 05, 2015

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• Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.

  A. Edward Newton

  Book, Soul, Buying

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• They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, People, Likes

  "Vapor" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Book, Reading, Italian

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• ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Thinking, Buying

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• I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.

  Robin Ince

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

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