Quotes about books and reading. Motivation to read books

Reading is the art of generating thoughts with small auxiliary nudges in your unrestrained mind. – Emil Fage

Every person who can understand reading is powerful, empowering himself and improving others, can make his life bright and not dull. - Aldous Huxley.

Reading into the depths of our consciousness allows us to read understanding the book for ourselves in a new way, and not as we listen to the meaning from other readers. – Marcus Fabius Quintilian.

Reading is the most important learning in life - Pushkin A.S.

A person who spends his hours reading is able to change his consciousness, this has already been seen. – Roger Rosenblatt.

Achieving a craving for reading in a person is the best gift given to a person, because he can see anything in a book. – Elizabeth Hardwick.

Re-reading classical literature, the reader will not see anything new in the book, but looking within himself he will see what he has not seen before. – Cliff Fadiman

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A book is a great thing as long as a person knows how to use it. – A.A. Block

Reading is one of the basic tools of life, a good life. – Joseph Addison.

I can't live without books. - Thomas Jefferson.

An educated person never reads - he rereads. – Georges Elgozy

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking and an art of writing. – Clarence Day.

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

It happens that I read a book with pleasure and at the same time hate its author.

Universal education has produced a mass of people who can read, but cannot understand what is worth reading. – George Trevelyan

Nothing spoils the reading of a book more than watching a movie based on it. – O. Kuznetsov

Every book is a theft from your own life. The more you read, the less you know how and want to live yourself. – M. Tsvetaeva

The book is a way for series to exist outside of television. – L. Levinson

Read the best books first, otherwise you won’t have time to read them at all. – Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin

Never read a book just because you started reading it. – John Witherspoon.

The more you read, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more places become open to you. – Dr. Seuss.

People in power don't have time to read, but people who don't read are unfit for power. – Michael Foote.

To love reading is to exchange hours of boredom, inevitable in life, for hours of great pleasure. – Montesquieu

Reading is one of the ways of thinking with another person's mind, it forces you to develop your own mind. – Charles Scribner Jr.

Reading makes a person knowledgeable, conversation makes a person resourceful, and the habit of writing makes a person accurate. – Bacon F.

What is acquired by reading through the pen turns into flesh and blood. – Seneca

Nobody reads anything; if he reads, he does not understand anything; if he understands, he immediately forgets. – Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

We need to develop our minds by reading a lot, not many authors. – Quintilian

We read so we know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

In books we read voraciously about things we don’t pay attention to in life. – Emil Krotky

Read as if you were eating fruit or savoring wine, or enjoying friendship, love or life. - George Herbert.

The love of reading is an exchange of hours of boredom for hours of pleasure. - Charles de Montesquieu.

A large library distracts rather than instructs the reader. It is much better to limit yourself to a few authors than to recklessly read many. – Seneca

I would never read the book if I had the opportunity to talk for half an hour with the person who wrote it. – Woodrow T. Wilson.

Read to live. - Henry Fielding.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember, and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps.

Never have books emitted so much light as in the fires of the Inquisition. – V. Goloborodko

Reading good books is a conversation with the best people of past times, and, moreover, such a conversation when they tell us only their best thoughts. – Descartes

Each reader, if he has a strong mind, reads the book and combines his thoughts with the thoughts of the author. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

In our age, people read too much, it prevents them from being wise. – O. Wilde

Many people praise some books, but still read others. – Martial

Reading is for the mind, exercise is for the body. – Joseph Addison.

Quick reading is useful if you need to read the Encyclopedia Britannica. But what to do with the rest of the evening? – Robert Orben

Reading after a certain age distracts the mind too much from its creative activities. Any person who reads too much and uses his brain too little is falling into the trap of lazy thinking. – Albert Einstein.

We live too much in books and not enough in nature. – A. France

I don't value reading without any pleasure. – Cicero

A house without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero.

No matter how many wise words you read, no matter how many you say, what good are they to you if you don’t put them into practice? – Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

Truly, many people read only to have the right not to think. – Lichtenberg G.

There are books that you just need to taste, there are those that are best swallowed and only chewed and digested a little. – F. Bacon

Read a lot, but not a lot of books. - Benjamin Franklin.

Tell me what you're reading and I'll tell you who you are, it's true, but I'll know you better if you tell me you're rereading. - François Mariac.

Reading a book on time is a huge success. She is capable of changing life in a way that her best friend or mentor cannot. – P.A. Pavlenko

Readers read, and admirers read. – Alexander Zhukov

If a person cannot enjoy reading a book again and again, there is no point in reading at all. - Oscar Wilde.

The reason people remember so little of what they read is that they think too little for themselves. – Georg Lichtenberg

Interesting books are read, brilliant books are re-read.

The book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. – Eric Pio.

Apart from a living person, there is nothing more amazing than a book. – Charles Kingsley.

There are people who read only to find mistakes in the writer. – Vauvenargues

Books are needed to remind a person that his original thoughts are not so new. – A. Lincoln

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect on me except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive. – Robertson Davis.

Read classic works first, otherwise you won’t have time to do it! – Toro G.

The art of reading is knowing what to skip. – Philip Hamerton

All good books are similar in one thing - when you finish reading to the end, it seems to you that all this happened to you, and so it will remain with you forever. – E. Hemingway

A good book contains more truths than the author intended to put into it. – M. Ebner-Eschenbach

Reading is thinking with someone else's head, not your own. - Arthur Schopenhauer.

Study and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest. – Dostoevsky F. M.

If we come across a person of rare intelligence, we should ask him what books he reads.

Choosing books for yourself and others to read is not only a science, but also an art. – Sergey Dovlatov.

The only book that interests me is Bumke's Textbook of Psychiatry. In my opinion, it contains everything you need to know about a person. They say: read the Bible, here is the book of books. But who can understand the Bible unless he first reads Bumke? – Louis-Paul Boon

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just make people not read them. - Ray Bradbury.

No one has ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write. – Robert Byrne.

There is no better way to refresh the mind than to read the ancient classics; As soon as you take one of them in your hands, even for half an hour, you immediately feel refreshed, lightened and cleansed, lifted and strengthened, as if you had refreshed yourself by bathing in a clean spring. - Schopenhauer A.

Reading is the creation of your own thoughts with the help of the thoughts of other people. – N.A. Rubakin

Books expand a child's understanding of the world!

Book- not a textbook, it does not give ready-made recipes on how to teach a child to love literature, one of the most important tasks of educators and parents, because teaching the complex art of reading and understanding a book is very difficult. The child must respond vividly and emotionally to what he reads, see the events depicted, and experience them passionately. The baby draws any scenes in his imagination, cries and laughs, imagines (sees, hears, smells and touches) what he reads so vividly that he feels like a participant in the events. The book introduces a child to the most difficult things in life - into the world of human feelings, joys and sufferings, relationships, motives, thoughts, actions, characters. The book teaches you to “peer” into a person, see and understand him, and cultivates humanity. A book read in childhood leaves a stronger impression than a book read in adulthood.

How to teach a child to read?

  • Personal example. If a child constantly sees his mother with a glossy magazine in her hands, and his father buried in a computer monitor, he is unlikely to be inflamed with a love of reading. And if you yourself love to read, know many authors and works, and can quote some lines, your child will be drawn to the same thing.
  • The right to choose. Don't force your child to read a book he doesn't want to read. Parents are often afraid that their children might choose a “bad” book for themselves, so they insist on literature that they themselves like. In this case, you can try to compromise: the child chooses one book to suit his taste, and reads the other on the advice of his parents.
  • Electronic books. As a rule, modern children are partial to various technical innovations. Try to instill a love of reading with the help of electronic books, so-called reading gadgets, where you can download any work you like. Of course, they do not have the charm that is present in ordinary books - the rustling of pages, colorful illustrations. But our children are different, so let them choose the books that are convenient for themselves.
  • The authority of a "star". There is another way to teach a child to read - to refer to the authority of an idol that your child cares about. Tell us that many actors and famous musicians in their interviews happily recall impressions of the books they read, moments from the works that inspired them or helped them achieve success. Sometimes just the mention of an idol is enough for a child to pick up a book.
  • Discuss the book you read together. This will help your child not only deal with impressions, but also express thoughts and emotions. If you show your interest in your child's personal opinion, this will also help increase interest in reading.
  • Surprise in the book. Suggest a work that you yourself read as a child. Place a beautiful bookmark, card, or just a note in the book with the words how much you love your child.

Here are 20 of the most interesting sayings about the benefits of reading:

  1. By reading authors who write well, you get used to speaking well. © F. Voltaire
  2. Culture is not the number of books read, but the number of things understood. © Fazil Iskander
  3. People who read books will always control those who watch TV. © F. Zhanlis
  4. The more you read, the less you imitate. © Jules Renard
  5. People are divided into two categories: those who read books, and those who listen to those who read. © Werber Bernard
  6. Just as rubles are made from kopecks, so knowledge is made from grains of what you read. © V. Dahl
  7. Reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body. © Joseph Addison
  8. There is only one thing worse than not touching a book for the past 90 days; it's not touching the reading for the last 90 days and thinking nothing happened. © Jim Rohn
  9. There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, don’t read them. © Ray Bradbury
  10. To become smart, you only need to read 10 books, but to find them, you need to read thousands.
  11. Books are ships of thought, traveling on the waves of time and carefully carrying their precious cargo from generation to generation. © Francis Bacon
  12. Remember: who you are is determined by what you read. © Jim Rohn
  13. Trust books, they are the closest. They are silent when necessary, and speak, opening the world to you, when necessary.
  14. A good book is like an iceberg, seven-eighths of which is hidden under water. © Ernest Hemingway
  15. The reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A person who never reads experiences only one. © D. Martin
  16. When you read the smart words of others, your own smart thoughts come to mind. © M. Lashkov
  17. The paradox of reading: it takes us away from reality in order to fill reality with meaning. © D. Pennac
  18. The collection of books is from the same university. © Thomas Carlyle
  19. Everything pales in comparison to books. © Anton Chekhov
  20. You don't need to read everything; you need to read what answers the questions that arise in your soul. © Leo Tolstoy

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Interesting proverbs and aphorisms about the benefits of books and reading can be used in Russian language and literature lessons for discussion with students, expanding their horizons and developing oral speech.

Proverbs and sayings about the book. A book is a man's friend.

A book is a book, and move your mind.

He who reads a lot knows a lot. Books are in his hands too.

The book is small, but it gave me some insight.

Not everyone who reads knows the power of reading.

The helmsman's book feeds the judges.

Read books, but don’t forget things to do.

He looks at the book and sees nothing.

Books don't tell, but they tell the truth.

The book is good, but the readers are bad.

The book is good, but the readers are bad.

I sold books and bought maps.

Read, bookworm, don’t spare your eyes.

A book is not beautiful in its writing, but rather in its mind.

The book decorates in happiness, and consoles in misfortune.

He reads a lot, but doesn't know anything.

Those who know the basics and basics will find books in their hands.

? A book is a vessel that fills us, but does not empty itself. (A. Decourcel) ? Only those who don’t read anything think about nothing. (D. Diderot) ? The work that is being read has a present; a work that is reread has a future. (A. Dumas the son) ? You can determine the dignity of a people by the number of books they consume. (E. Labule) ? I judge a city by the number of bookstores it has. (A.G. Rubinstein) ? There are no masterpieces that perished in oblivion. (O. Balzac) ? A book that is not worth reading twice is also not worth reading once. (K. Weber) ? The more you read without thinking, the more convinced you are that you know a lot, and the more you think while reading, the more clearly you see that you know very little. (Voltaire) ? The so-called paradoxes of the author, which shock the reader, are often not in the author’s book, but in the reader’s head (F. Nietzsche) ? Poetry is the most majestic form in which human thought can be clothed. (A. Lamartine) ? Burn the hearts of people with the verb. (A.S. Pushkin) ? Style is the appropriate words in the appropriate place. (D. Swift) ? When I stopped drinking tea with kalach, I said: no appetite! When I stopped reading poetry or novels, I said: not this, not that! (A.P. Chekhov) ? Reading made Don Quixote a knight, and believing what he read made him crazy. (George Bernard Shaw)

? People stop thinking when they stop reading.

(D. Diderot)

? They read on the train because it’s boring, on the tram because it’s interesting.

(Ilya Ilf.)

? The book captured him so much that he grabbed the book.

(Emil the Meek.)

Don't give your books to anyone, otherwise you won't see them again. The only books left in my library are those that I borrowed from others to read.

(Anatole France.)

? Books are children of the mind.

(Jonathan Swift.)

? Libraries are treasuries of all the riches of the human spirit.

(Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.)

(Blaise Pascal.)

? Books are intertwined people.

(Anton Semenovich Makarenko.)

? Through suffering and grief it is destined for us to obtain grains of wisdom that cannot be acquired in books. (Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol.)

? What is not worth reading more than once is not worth reading at all.

(Carl Maria Weber.)

? The two most useful books for a girl are her mother's kitchen book and her father's checkbook. (American saying.)

? Man's action is instantaneous and one; The action of the book is multiple and ubiquitous.

(Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.)

Books are ships of thought, traveling the waves of time and carefully carrying their precious cargo from generation to generation.

(Francis Bacon.) ? Solitude with books is better than company with fools.

(Pierre Buast.)

Reading a book on time is a huge success. She is capable of changing life in a way that her best friend or mentor cannot.

(Petr Andreevich Pavlenko.)

? A good book is like a conversation with an intelligent person.

(Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.)

? Reading is a window through which children see and learn about the world and themselves.

(V. Sukhomlinsky)

The entire life of humanity was consistently deposited in the book: tribes, people, states disappeared, but the book remained.

(A.I. Herzen)

? What a joy it is to find a good library. Looking at books is already happiness. (Charles Lamb)

? Books are the best companions of old age, and at the same time the best guides of youth.

(Samloel Smiles)

Reading a book on time is a huge success. She can change lives in a way that her best friend or mentor cannot.”

(P.A. Pavlenko)

? A book is a teacher without pay or gratitude. Every moment gives you revelations of wisdom.

(A. Navoi)


Quotes about books and reading once again convince us that books are valued, respected, and given an important place in life by people of all nations, professions, different ages and social strata, because Many people wrote about reading and its benefits: bishops, critics, scientists, inventors, artists, philosophers, actors, composers and others.

The book occupies a very important place in the life of every person. This is a whole world that allows you to learn a lot of new, necessary and interesting information. It is thanks to reading that a child, first through his parents, then independently, begins his acquaintance with letters, syllables, and learns about the surrounding reality. It helps to solve many mysteries, explain the incomprehensible, and tell us about unknown things.


A bad book is a good cure for insomnia.
Aurelius Markov


By reading authors who write well, you get used to speaking well.
Voltaire.

A good book looks to the future, even if it is about the past.
V. Borisov

A house without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero


You need to meet for love, for the rest there are books.
Marina Tsvetaeva


The first manuscript was created more than a millennium ago, but even now they never cease to be popular and in demand. And this is especially clearly proven to us by quotes about books. They were composed by ancient philosophers, classics of literature and poetry, psychologists, and modern scientists.

In the wise statements of great people about books, the idea of ​​the benefits of reading for adults and children is clearly expressed. After all, without this it is impossible to become literate and succeed in life.

Sayings about books help us understand how necessary it is to be well-read in life. A person who is friends with them is capable of much. The doors to the information world are open for him, he constantly improves his knowledge and is able to achieve all his goals. Wise aphorisms about books will tell you how to correctly and profitably use this tool for great achievements in any field of activity.

A book is a friend to the lonely, and a library is a refuge to the homeless.
S. Vitnitsky
Everything that is difficult will become easy to learn if you are friends with a good book.
N. Hisrow

Following the thoughts of a great man is the most interesting science.
A. Pushkin

To love reading is to exchange hours of boredom, inevitable in life, for hours of great pleasure.
C. Montesquieu
Instilling in a child a taste for reading is the best gift we can give him.
S.Lupan

The best cinema in the world is the brain, and you realize this when you read a good book.
Ridley Scott
In aphorisms about reading, phrases about the library could not help but find a place. After all, it is considered to be a repository or even a treasury that has collected and passed on from generation to generation the great values ​​of the world. In every quote about the library, it is compared to a magical world that contains a lot of interesting things.


In ancient times, even the smallest works were difficult to obtain; they were incredibly expensive, so not everyone could afford to read them. A library corner in a house was considered a sign of the owner’s wealth and education.

Bad books are not only useless, but also harmful.
Tolstoy L. N.
The books that are read have the present. Books that are reread have a future.
Alexander Dumas son
When we read a good book for the first time, we experience the same feeling as when we make a new friend. Reading a book again means seeing an old friend again.
Voltaire

In any case, a little, but good, is better than a lot, but bad. It's the same in books.
Leo Tolstoy
Reading a book on time is a huge success. She is capable of changing life in a way that her best friend or mentor cannot.
Petr Pavlenko


Get acquainted with famous quotes about reading, and you will see that it is not just a pleasant pastime, but also a very necessary activity for everyone. It helps you learn to express thoughts perfectly, increases your vocabulary, and allows you to formulate your speech clearly and clearly.

After all, if you know how to speak beautifully, doors will be open to you everywhere, they will listen to you with pleasure, listen to you, respect you, and books are the best teachers in this. In addition, reading improves memory, spelling, broadens our horizons, that is, they affect our comprehensive development.


A lot has been said about books and reading. People have noted its value ever since the first manuscripts began to appear. We now know aphorisms about books not only from the lips of Soviet and foreign writers of past centuries, but also from modern classics.

If we compare the intellect to a plant, then books are like bees carrying fertilizing pollen from one mind to another.
Lowell D.



Books are not only a source of new knowledge and a path to self-improvement. Reading is an opportunity to relax and gain strength. It will never get boring, as it allows you to learn a lot of new things every time.

Even wise people said in their statements that the process of getting acquainted with an exciting work is an excellent way of relaxation. You are immersed in a mysterious world together with the characters, breaking away from real worries and affairs, traveling with them, worrying and rejoicing.


A good story or novel can captivate and relax, lift your spirits, and charge you with positivity. Read books, be literate and conquer the most inaccessible peaks!

“The entire life of mankind was consistently deposited in the book: tribes, people, states disappeared, but the book remained.”
A.I. Herzen

“Most of human knowledge in all branches exists only on paper, in books, this paper memory of humanity. Therefore, only a collection of books, a library, is the only hope and indestructible memory of the human race.”
A. Schopenhauer

“You need to know the book. You have to love and believe in her. You need to develop the ability and practical dexterity to work with the help of a book.”
N.A. Rubakin

“Reading is one of the sources of thinking and mental development.”
V.A. Sukhomlinsky

“If you search carefully in the books of wisdom, you will find great benefit for your soul.”
Nestor the Chronicler

“What could be more precious than to enter into daily communication with the wisest people in the world.”
L.N. Tolstoy

“Books give birth to a dream, bring it to life, make you think, and foster independent judgment.”
S.G. Strumilin

“No failures of history and remote spaces of time are able to destroy human thought, enshrined in hundreds, thousands and millions of manuscripts and books.”
K.G. Paustovsky

“A book is a magician. The book transformed the world. It contains the memory of the human race, it is the mouthpiece of human thought. A world without a book is a world of savages.”
N.A.Morozov

“What a pleasure it is to find a good library. Looking at books is already happiness.”
Charles Lamb

“The reason people remember so little of what they read is because they think too little for themselves.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“All kinds of rudeness melt away, as if on fire, under the influence of daily reading of good books.”
Victor Marie Hugo

“Acquaintance with the thoughts of bright minds is an excellent exercise: it fertilizes the mind and refines thought.”
Johann Gottfried Herder

“Study was for me the main remedy against the boredom of life, and I have never had a grief that was not dissipated after one hour of reading.”
Charles Louis Montesquieu

“Exercising with books nourishes youth, amuses old age, embellishes happiness, provides refuge and consolation in misfortune, brings joy at home, does not disturb outside the home...”
Marcus Tulius Cicero

“A book is the purest essence of the human soul.”
Thomas Carlyle

“A book is viable only if its spirit is directed to the future.”
Honore de Balzac

“Books are the best companions of old age, at the same time the best guides of youth.”
Samloel Smiles

“Books have the power of immortality. They are the most enduring fruits of human activity.”
Samloel Smiles

“There is nothing that has attracted me more all my life than reading good, kind books containing deep and interesting thoughts.”
Ali Absheroni

“The situation with books is the same as with people. Although we meet many people, we choose only a few as our friends, as our heartfelt companions in life.”
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

“The best service a book can do is not only to tell you the truth, but to make you think about it.”
Hubbard E.

“Books have a special charm; books give us pleasure: they talk to us, give us good advice, they become living friends for us.”
Petrarch F.

“In books we read voraciously about things we don’t pay attention to in life.”
Emil Krotky

“Reading a book on time is a huge success. She can change lives in a way that her best friend or mentor cannot.”
Pavlenko P.A.

“All good books are similar in one thing - when you finish reading to the end, it seems to you that all this happened to you, and so it will remain with you forever.”
Hemingway E.

“There are many good books in the world, but these books are good only for those people who know how to read them. The ability to read good books is not at all equivalent to knowledge of literacy.”
DI. Pisarev

“Reading good books reveals to us the hidden thoughts in our own souls”
C. Piermont

“The greatest virtue of classical works is that they inspire wise conversations, serious and heartfelt conversations, reflections.”
A. France

“A book whose merit lies in the subtlety of its observations on the nature of man and things can never fail to please.”
C. Helvetius

“Read not to contradict and refute, not to take for granted; and not to find a subject for conversation; but to think and reason.”
F. Bacon

“A good book is a gift bequeathed by the author to the human race.”
D. Addison

“Learn, read, reflect and get the most out of everything.”
N.I. Pirogov

“How many people who, after reading another good book, opened a new era in their lives!”
G. Thoreau

“Since life is very short and there are very few free hours, we should not waste any of them reading books of little value.”
D. Ruskin

“The most useful books are the ones that make you think the most.”
T. Parker

“Look for people whose conversation would be worth a good book, and books whose reading would be worth a conversation with a philosopher.”
P. Buast

“A book is a teacher without payment or gratitude. Every moment gives you revelations of wisdom."
A.Navoi

“It is absurd to make strict rules about what should be read and what not. A good half of modern culture is based on what you shouldn’t read.”
Oscar Wilde

“Books are ships of thought, traveling the waves of time and carefully carrying their precious cargo from generation to generation.”
Francis Bacon

“Reading is the best teaching!”
A.S. Pushkin

“There is no better way to refresh the mind than reading the ancient classics; “As soon as you take one of them in your hands, even for half an hour, you immediately feel refreshed, lightened and cleansed, lifted and strengthened, as if you had been refreshed by bathing in a clean spring.”
A. Schopenhauer

“Reading makes a man knowledgeable, conversation makes him resourceful, and the habit of writing makes him accurate.”
F.Bacon

“People stop thinking when they stop reading.”
D. Diderot

“Read not to contradict and refute, not to take it on faith, and not to find a subject for conversation; but to think and reason.”
F. Bacon

“Reading is for the mind what physical exercise is for the body.”
D. Addison



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