Inspiring Book Quotes

• A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Imagination

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Speech in New York City, November 19, 1905.

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Educational, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences.

  William Styron

  Book, Should, Inspirational Reading

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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  You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Long

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Book, New Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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