20 Book Quotes to Encourage You to Read More

1. The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -Pablo Neruda 

2. You cannot open a book without learning something. -Confucius 

3. I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. -Groucho Marx 

4. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

5. There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 

6. Keep reading books, but remember that a book is only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. -Maxim Gorky 

7. The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. -W. Somerset Maugham 

8. You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. -Paul Sweeney 

9. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. -Frederick Douglas 

10. A book is a device to ignite the imagination. -Alan Bennett 

11. The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce 

12. A good book has no ending. -R.D. Cumming 

13. 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 

14. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. -Mark Twain 

 15. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. -Chinese Proverb 

16. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. -E.P. Whipple 

17. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke 

18. The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it in a book. -André Maurois 

19. A house without books is like a room without windows. -Heinrich Mann 

20. Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books — even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.-William Ewart Gladstone