George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Book Quotes, World Quotes

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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Books were my pass to personal freedom.

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Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

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We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

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Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Ambition Quotes

In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

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Tags : A. H. Almaas Quotes , Book Quotes , Journey Quotes

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

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You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

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