Reading books will allow you to gain knowledge and wisdom, reading a book will help you get creative and positive. Utilize your time well, you have 24 hours in a day, spending 20 to 30 minutes reading a few pages of a book daily will be a good journey towards attaining goodness in life. Through the advancement of technology, if you are a person who can not tolerate reading, or if you are unable to read, then there are other avenues of going through a book, audiobooks are great, you can sit back and listen to a good book being read to you, but it is advised to read yourself, reading is good for the mind, the mind is active when you are reading. These book quotes are all inspirational, these quotes highlight the beauty of reading.
35 Book Quotes
- “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” R.R. Tolkien
- “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint
- “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” Charlotte Brontë
- “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” Charles Dickens
- “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” Mary Shelley
- “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” Abraham Lincoln
- “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx
- “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” S. Lewis
- “You can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” Stephen King
- “The covers of this book are too far apart.” Ambrose Bierce
- “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” Alberto Manguel
- “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” Annie Dillard
- “The world was hers for the reading.” Betty Smith
- “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” Jhumpa Lahiri
- “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai
- “So many books, so little time.” Frank Zappa
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” Neil Gaiman
- “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges
- “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” Haruki Murakami
- “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller
- “A word after a word after a word is power.” Margaret Atwood
- “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” Carl Sagan
- “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” Napoleon Bonaparte
- “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company, by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” Charles Baudelaire
- “I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” Jane Austen
- “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus
- “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” Louisa May Alcott
- “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” Henry Ward Beecher
- “I can do things like that when I writepluck any thread of want and weave a whole world.” Kira Madden
- “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” Mason Cooley
- “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” J. O’Rourke
- “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” Harold Kushner
- “Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” John Green
- “The book you don’t read won’t help.” Jim Rohn
