Book Quote by Ernest Dimnet Download Open image “Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.” — Ernest Dimnet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Good book Life is Life is too short Too short
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“People put too much focus on books. Listen to stories. The stories of your peers, mentors, parents, etc. The life you're living [right now]… — Dom McLennon Copy Share Image
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image