86 Book Quotes

Be motivated by these book quotes. These short book quotes show us the wisdom contained throughout their pages. Books can be used for educational purposes, for research, for relaxing the mind with stories of glee and happiness or to travel to a far off land without leaving home.

For those who have been raised in an era before all technological devices that are now used to read, there was always the pleasant thought of curling up before a roaring fire on a winter's day with a cherished book. There seemed to be something magical about holding a book, smelling the ink emitted from its pages and turning each page as if one was traveling over the next hill to see what lay beyond.

Books are an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to enjoy, and an opportunity to challenge your mind, to motivate and to inspire you.


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  1. Oh, books of mine! .....Each treasured volume has a glory that seems a part of the divine, Howard Carleton Tripp, My Books
    poems about books



  2. Go to your friend for sympathy; that is natural. Go to your books for comfort, for counsel. Angela Morgan



  3. The pages of a book hold secrets untold, a world of knowledge waiting to unfold. Catherine Pulsifer, Knowledge Through Reading
    Poems About Knowledge



  4. How many books have we read searching for the truth? The Bible has all the answers we need - we just need to read and study it. Catherine Pulsifer



  5. In the world of ink, where pages sprawl, books hold the keys to wonders all. Catherine Pulsifer, In The World Of Ink
    Funny Poems About Books



  6. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer J. Adler



  7. Education without books is like a garden without flowers; it's through reading that knowledge blossoms. Author Unknown
    Poems About Education



  8. A family is like a book and each chapter not to be overlooked Catherine Pulsifer, A Family Is



  9. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire



  10. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson
    Poems About Reading



  11. Books, gateways to bygone times we seek, windows into eras now long asleep. Catherine Pulsifer, Gateway To Bygone Times
    Poems About Libraries



  12. Life is like a book, one chapter finishes, another begins. So as you graduate we wish you a best seller! Author Unknown



  13. Life is too short to read a bad book.
  14. Life is too short to read a bad book. James Joyce



  15. Books spark realms unseen and dreams secure, leading minds beyond confines of mundane light. Catherine Pulsifer, Pages Whisper



  16. When it comes to learning, a book has no bounds...rather than say I don't know in a book, solutions do show. Catherine Pulsifer, Through Books And Lessons
    Poems About Learning



  17. The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. Melody Beattie



  18. The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. N. T. Wright



  19. Oh, the many books I have read some quite good and others I dread. Short ones, long ones on many different topics, new ones, old ones, some are truly relics. Catherine Pulsifer, Take A Look
    Quotes about Reading



  20. Now close the book and lay it away - the Old Year's Book; we have read it through; leaf after leaf, and day after day we have turned the pages Unknown, The Old Year's Book



  21. You can cover a great deal of country in books. Andrew Lang



  22. Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting. Aldous Huxley



  23. Reading a book can take us to a place - into the lives and what people face Catherine Pulsifer, Reading A Book



  24. Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. Thomas Jefferson
    Quotes about Library



  25. But this my song of thankfulness, and this my song of praise—
    thank God for all the friendly books, for every magic phrase Wilhelmina Stitch, A Thanksgiving



  26. The mustiness of an old book library is akin to the most aromatic dish I've tasted.
  27. The mustiness of an old book library is akin to the most aromatic dish I've tasted. Freddy J. W. Parkes



  28. The lessons, we learn go far beyond books, they seep into our souls, like bait on hooks, every experience adds to our education path Catherine Pulsifer, Dear Graduates
    Poems About Growth



  29. The Bible is the most important book in the world because it tells us how we can have eternal life. Rick Warren



  30. Books lend to a lifelong path unfurl, where literacy’s flame forever swirls. Catherine Pulsifer, Books
    Poems About Literacy



  31. May some good book enrich the passing hours. Joseph H. Crooker



  32. The pages are blank, the sheets are white, it is up to me, what will happen and what I'll write. Catherine Pulsifer, My Book



  33. I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. Robert Frost



  34. Graduation is a time to look towards the future, but don't forget to take with you the knowledge and wisdom you have gained from the books you have read. Author Unknown



  35. But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. Peter Davison



  36. There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway



  37. Books are like cheap mini vacations. Michelle M. Pillow



  38. Through page on page and find therein, to my profound surprise, full proof, through this great wonder Book, that God's all-seeing eyes Strickland Gillilan
    The Book For All Time



  39. My house is full of well-loved books - they're scattered round the place - in unexpected corners - on the shelves and in the case.
  40. My house is full of well-loved books - they're scattered round the place - in unexpected corners - on the shelves and in the case. Patience Strong
    Bedside Books



  41. I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. Alex Haley



  42. Seek wisdom from great books and inspiration from good men J. H. Tewksbury



  43. And yes, there are lots of negative - negative people, negative tv, negative books - but you can be influenced by the positive by the books you read, the tv you watch, and the people you spend your time with. Catherine Pulsifer



  44. Books are the silent mentors in the classroom of life, guiding us through the lessons of education.
    Quotes About Education



  45. Old friends, old books are surely best, already long they've stood each test Charles R. Williams, Old Friends, Old Books



  46. How many books are around this day that we were written more than 1500 years ago Catherine Pulsifer, See You In Heaven?



  47. For books by poet, seer and sage; for easy chairs and middle-age...I give Thee thanks!
  48. For books by poet, seer and sage; for easy chairs and middle-age...I give Thee thanks! May Carlexon Lord, I Give Thee Thanks!



  49. Ah, yes, the chapter ends to–day; we even lay the book away; but oh, how sweet the moments sped. Paul Laurence Dunbar, The End of The Chapter



  50. While I've never actually experienced the thrills of walking through an English castle of old but yet I've caressed each damp wall, cast my eyes beyond every fortified turret, and walked boldly past massive wooden gates through the pages of a book. Byron R. Pulsifer



  51. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



  52. No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. Eugene Field



  53. Have you read the Scriptures? Have you had a real good look?
    If you seek for confirmation, you will find it in God's Book. Greta Zwaan, The Things God Has Done



  54. For every book you read, a new adventure adds to your spirit of knowledge.
  55. For every book you read, a new adventure adds to your spirit of knowledge. Rosy Lee Anderson



  56. Let us learn to be content with what we have....A few books full of the inspiration of a genius David Swing, Contentment



  57. You may not alone have the inner strength to smash your way through adversity but internalizing the stories told through books of those who did lend ammunition to carry on. Theodore W. Higgingsworth



  58. You cannot open a book without learning something. Confucius
    Learning Quotes



  59. I have had many companions that change over time but never the thoughts contained within the pages of cherished books. Kate Summers



  60. Take the Bible - read the Bible - 'Tis a precious, precious book
  61. Take the Bible - read the Bible - 'Tis a precious, precious book Daniel C. Colesworthy
    Read The Bible



  62. A library of ancient and old texts hold the combined recipes for all those similar events that will be seen today and tomorrow. Robert Rivers



  63. Life is like a book, each chapter has its ups and downs, but what is important is that you keep going you fulfill your purpose. Catherine Pulsifer



  64. I love my books, I love to read the things they're all about Lucy P. Scott, The Seasons



  65. Never judge a book by its movie. J. W. Eagan



  66. 	Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
  67. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom



  68. If I could I'd avoid the cold, and sit in my cozy home. I'd put on a fire and sit with a book, and hope for winter to roam. Julie Hebert, Winter Madness



  69. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. Bell Hooks



  70. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot
    Quotes About Literacy



  71. I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. Charles De Secondat



  72. When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
  73. When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Marie de Sevigne



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



  75. The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. N. T. Wright



  76. Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris
    Knowledge Quotes



  77. Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
  78. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps



  79. There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry. Emily Dickinson, A Book



  80. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx



  81. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
  82. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain



  83. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G. K. Chesterton



  84. Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. Dwight D. Eisenhower



  85. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
  86. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. Thomas Carlyle



  87. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. George William Curtis



  88. Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. Britney Spears



  89. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
  90. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Sir Richard Steele



  91. Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. Oprah Winfrey



  92. 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. G. K. Chesterton



  93. The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Northrup Frye



  94. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
  95. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie



  96. Of all the books in the world, the Bible is the best seller year after year. You can read it and reread it and every time you will find something new. Catherine Pulsifer



  97. When it's winter, I shall look a my memory picture book. Wilhelmina Stitch



  98. A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfield



  99. Say the books, "Home is here. We dispel despair and fear.'" Wilhelmina Stitch

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