100+ Best Books Quotes

100+ Best Books Quotes

414 Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Here are some inspirational quotes from Books and also discover the inspiring things that have been said about books and motivating things that have been said about reading by authors, poets, scientists,

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

François Mauriac

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Irving Stone

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Francis Bacon

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

John Green

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

Alessandro Baricco

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

C.S. Lewis

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A room without books is like a body without a soul.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

George R.R. Martin

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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

Haruki Murakami

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Jasper Fforde

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

John Milton

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orhan Pamuk

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Sylvia Plath

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

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

William Styron

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

Aaron Swartz

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

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

Abraham Lincoln

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Adolf Hitler

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Agatha Christie

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Al Pacino

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Anna Quindlen

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

Anna Quindlen

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Alain de Botton

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Alan Bennett

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Alan Bennett

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