Book Quality Impact

Table of Contents

• The Value of Reading
• Good vs Bad Books
• Books and Morality
• Reading as an Intellectual Exercise
• Books' Influence on Society
• Personal Relationship with Books
• Books as a Reflection of the World
• Criticism and Perception of Books
• Other

The Value of Reading

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

We are improved by reading books not by owning them.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

Those who read only books that only entertain them have no significant advantage over those who can but do not read.

Reading good books strengthens the moral fabric of society.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Good vs Bad Books

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones

There are no bad books.Reading is reading and the mind will benefit from the exercise regardless of the content.

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up...

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

Good books enlighten the mind, bad books corrupt the soul.

Books and Morality

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Reading as an Intellectual Exercise

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

A book not worthy of being read twice is not worthy of being read once.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you make mistakes, they never chide. They give to all who ask of them, and never demand payment. ... All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, if God hadn't provided us with the remedy of books.

Books are kinder than ignorance.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. This library was perhaps born to save the books it houses, but now it lives to bury them. This is why it has become a sink of iniquity.

Books' Influence on Society

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian.

Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly convincing reason why books ought to be given to them, to be a rebuke to them and, perchance, to rescue them from the error of their ways.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.

Personal Relationship with Books

Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the food is poisonous, it will be injurious to the system. The same happens with reading. If people read good and instructive books at regular and proper times, it will strengthen and nourish them greatly.

It's one of the mistakes most people do… not the minority… but the most.. the majority people is to have books or to buy books never to read them… never to finish them.

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

Books allow readers to determine what they wish. People often aren't quite as forgiving if you don't read or see exactly what they wish you to.

Books are not only for reading. Action must be taken to benefit from those.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for.

You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human, which I devoutly hope you never will have. ‘The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them.

No one knows why books do well.

Books as a Reflection of the World

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

A great book can feed your soul in a world where the overload of misinformation can break you

Books allow readers to determine what they wish. People often aren't quite as forgiving if you don't read or see exactly what they wish you to.

A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for.

The world’s rulers should be forced to take a reader’s license. Only when they have read five thousand – no, make that ten thousand – books will they be anywhere near qualified to understand humans and how they behave. I often felt better, no longer so bad, fake and unfaithful, when Jean read me bits where good people did nasty things out of love or necessity or their hunger for life.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

Criticism and Perception of Books

Why take a book and read it like a fool ... Normally, anyone who is not a fool is ruined or is about to ruin the lives of others.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Other

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.

It is better to pick up a book than to pick up ignorance.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produces no concept; therefore, it is dumb.

Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

The good of a book lies in its being read.

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin but what good does that do me?

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading – once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive – is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more; – book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. MARK TWAIN.

Books don’t hurt people.” “What comes out of them jolly well does.

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! – Homer Simpson.

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