Statements about literature and reading. Quotes and aphorisms about reading. The importance of reading for children

Don't get us wrong, but reading is for introverts. Extroverts can also be book lovers, but they are more open to the outside world, their dialogue with others is bright and rich. Extroverts enjoy communicating, going to parties, traveling, keeping diaries with old photos and funny entries, holding hands with lovers, looking a lot at the sky, at the sea, they like stories with a good ending. Books are written by those who value the process of self-knowledge. And those who read voraciously are introverts, for whom books help them perceive the outside world more clearly. Reading is a kind of bridge from the ideal world to the real world.

With the help of books, we try to get rid of the feeling of loneliness: firstly, it’s nice to know that we are not the only book drinkers, and secondly,

no one understands us the way Sartre understands us;
no one will teach us courage except Hemingway;
no one writes our love like Remarque;
no one knows us better than Borges.

And so on ad infinitum. Take the books from us, and we will start reading advertisements in the subway. Another novel, another page of a story - so what if it’s already morning? But now our world is filled with the feelings and emotions we need and painted in all the colors of magical ponies.

55 aphorisms and sayings that remind you why we love to read so much:

1) Literature is the most pleasant way to ignore life. – Fernando Pessoa;
2) A book is a device that can ignite the imagination. – Alan Bennett;
3) A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. – Neil Gaiman;
4) Leave me my books. That is all I have. – Franz Kafka;
5) A good book is endless. – D. R. Cumming;
6) A good book is a precious source of vitality of the spirit. – John Milton;

7) By acquiring the habit of reading, you are building a refuge for yourself from almost all the sufferings of life. - Somerset Maugham;
8) The writer is just starting a book. The reader finishes it. – Samuel Johnson;
9) Books are a unique portable magic. – Stephen King;
10) Books are a plane, a train, and a road. They are both the destination and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen;
11) Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - E. P. Whipple;
12) Books are the quietest and most constant friends, they are the most accessible and wisest advisers, and the most patient teachers. – Charles William Eliot;

13) A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann;

14) When you read, you live several lives. – William Styron;
15) A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero;
16) Our mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone so as not to become dull. – Tyrion Lannister (George Martin);
17) The reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The one who never reads - only one. George Martin;
18) Books became my passport to personal freedom. – Oprah Winfrey;
19) I don’t believe in the magic that is talked about in my books. But I believe that something truly magical can happen when you read a good book. - Joanne Rowling;

20) Children become readers on the laps of their parents. – Emily Buchwald;

21) Instilling in a child a taste for reading is the best gift we can give him. – S. Lupan;
22) It’s good to inherit a library, and even better to build your own. – Augustine Birrell;
23) Good friends, good books and a Sleeping conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain;
24) Reading can be dangerous. – Diana Setterfield;
25) I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on the TV, I go to another room and read a book. – Groucho Marx;
26) It always seemed to me that Heaven is a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges;
27) I was born with a “reading list” that I could never finish. – Maud Casey;
28) If there is a book that you want to read, but it has not yet been written, then you should write it. – Toni Morrison;
29) If you only read books that everyone reads, you will only think what everyone thinks. – Haruki Murakami;
30) My best friend is the person who will give me a book that I haven't read. - Abraham Lincoln;

31) No matter how busy you are, you must find time to read, or give in to your own ignorance. – Confucius;

32) Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry S. Truman;
33) Once you learn to read, you will always be free. – Frederick Douglass;
34) One of the joys of reading is the ability to tap into the shared wisdom of humanity. – Ishmael Reed;
35) Reading is a discount ticket everywhere. – Mary Schmidsch;
36) Reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body. – Joseph Addison;
37) Reading takes us away from home, but more importantly, it finds us a home everywhere. – Hazel Rochman;
38) Reading is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can offer us. – Harold Bloom;

39) So many books, so little time. – Frank Zappa;

40) Love for books is a love that requires no justification, apology, or defense. – Y. A. Langford;
41) Reading a great book is like making a great friend. – Oliver Goldsmith;
42) A passion for reading is a great gift. – Elizabeth Hardwick;
43) A person who does not read good books has no advantage over a person who cannot read. - Mark Twain;
44) The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. – Saint Augustine;
45) The world of books is the most wonderful creation of man. – Clarence Shepard Day;
46) There are many ways to expand your child's world. The love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy;

47) There is no truer friend than a book. - Ernest Hemingway;

48) There is an art of reading, just as there is an art of thinking and an art of writing. – Isaac Disraeli;
49) Never trust someone who hasn’t brought a book with them. – Lemony Snicket;
50) What you read will change you. – Deepak Chopra;
51) Reading is like thinking, praying, talking to a friend, expressing your thoughts, listening to others' ideas, enjoying music, seeing a beautiful landscape and walking on the beach. – Roberto Bolaño;
52) When you sell a person a book, you are not just selling him a set of paper, ink and glue - you are selling him a new life. – Christopher Morley;
53) Create your own bible. From everything you read, collect those words and statements that shocked and deafened you. – Ralph Emerson;
54) Reading books out loud together binds people more tightly than paying off a loan together. – Janusz Wisniewski;
55) Freedom exists to go to the library. – I. Brodsky.

Quotes and Aphorisms 18.05.2018

Dear readers, today we will talk about the greatest treasure that civilization has given people - books. They appear in our lives in early childhood and then accompany us throughout our lives. They help us learn to think, develop imagination, and improve literacy.

Tell me what you are reading - and I will tell you who you are... Their importance and value for humanity is very accurately and clearly reflected in quotes and aphorisms about books.

A book in a person's life

“A book is a monument to minds that have passed into eternity. This is a story in which life flows like blood through veins. This is the alpha and omega of all knowledge, this is the beginning of the beginnings of every science. A book is a man’s silent teacher.”

“Where there is a book, a person is no longer left alone with himself, within the four walls of his horizons, he joins in all the achievements of the past and present.”

Stefan Zweig

“A book is the same phenomenon of life as a person, it is also a living, speaking fact, and it is less a “thing” than all other things created and being created by man.”

Maksim Gorky

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

Thomas Carlyle

“Books are a mirror: although they do not speak, they declare every guilt and vice.”

Catherine II the Great

Isaac Babel

“A book should be an ice pick for the frozen sea inside us.”

Franz Kafka

“Wherever there is arable land, wherever there is a human mind, there must be a book.”

Victor Hugo

“Laws die, books never.”

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

Francesco Petrarca

How to read well...

“One who does not read has no advantage over one who cannot read.”

Mark Twain

“In the past, books were written by writers and read by readers. Now books are written by readers and no one reads them.”

Oscar Wilde

“There is only one way to become a cultured person - reading.”

Andre Maurois

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

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Hermann Hesse

Pliny the Younger

“People stop thinking when they stop reading.”

Denis Diderot

Pascal Blaise

Reading is the best teaching!

Quotes about books and reading contain all the arguments why the ability to read and comprehend what is read is so important for a person. After all, books make us think deeper and clearer, literally sharpening our mind and developing it.

“Study and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest."

Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

“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.”

Francis Bacon

“Only those who don’t read anything think about nothing.”

Denis Diderot

“Reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body.”

Joseph Addison

“Reading books nourishes youth, amuses old age, embellishes happiness, provides consolation and refuge in misfortune, relieves boredom at home, does not disturb outside the home...”

Great people about books

Many writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers have spoken about the fact that books occupy a very important place in the life of every thinking person. It is worth listening to their words, because the quotes and aphorisms of great people about books contain all the wisdom of generations.

"The book is a dumb teacher."

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

Joseph Addison

“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.”

Vasily Rozanov

“Where books are burned, people will be burned.”

Heinrich Heine

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

Charles Lamb

“A book is a teacher without payment or gratitude. Every moment she gives you revelations of wisdom. This is an interlocutor with a brain covered with skin, speaking silently about secret affairs.”

Alisher Navoi

“Love the book with all your heart! She is not only your best friend, but also your faithful companion to the end.”

Ernest Hemingway

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

Francis Bacon

“If there were no books in the world, I would have long ago fallen into despair.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Books gave me more than people. The memory of a person always pales before the memory of a book.”

Marina Tsvetaeva

“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.”

Rene Descartes

“A house without a book is like a body without a soul.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When I had some money, I bought books. And if there was anything left, I bought myself food.”

Erasmus of Rotterdam

“Of all the manifestations of human creativity, the most amazing and worthy of attention are books. The thoughts of past times live in books; The voices of people whose ashes have long scattered, like a dream, can be heard clearly and distinctly. Everything that humanity has done, changed its mind, everything that it has achieved - all this has been preserved, as if by magic, on the pages of books.”

Thomas Carlyle

About good and bad books

Long gone are the days when books were incredibly expensive. Nowadays we are greeted with such an abundance of literature on bookshelves that we can get confused. And its cost is not always comparable to its value. Not everything that is bound can bring light and knowledge and bear the great title of a book. It is this idea that is reflected in aphorisms and quotes about good and bad books.

Pliny the Younger

“Some books should only be tasted, others should be swallowed, and only a few should be chewed and digested.”

Thomas Macaulay

“Bad books can spoil us just as much as bad comrades.”

Henry Fielding

“The books that are called immoral are the books that show the world its shame.”

“Cheap editions of great books may be wonderful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely intolerable.”

Oscar Wilde

“Among books, as among people, you can find yourself in good and bad society.”

Claude Adrian Helvetius

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten, but there is not a single one that is undeservedly remembered.”

Wystan Hugh Auden

“Indiscriminate and excessive reading of books harms a person in the same way as eating a lot of food. Sometimes it's better to be hungry."

Francesco Petrarca

“In no field does the mind require more careful and careful guidance than in the use of books.”

John Locke

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

John Ruskin

“Remember: who you are is determined by what you read.”

“The main thing is not how much you spend when you buy a book. The main thing is how much you will lose by not reading it.”

The importance of reading for children

Unfortunately, in the modern world there is a tendency towards decreasing interest in reading. And this is a big problem. It is very important to teach children to love and appreciate books from a very early age. After all, reading gives the first concepts of good and evil, helps to understand the world and the feelings of other people. All this is accurately reflected in quotes about reading and books for children.

George Carlin

“Reading is the window through which children see and learn about the world and themselves.”

“Without exaggeration we can say that reading during childhood is, first of all, the education of the heart, the touch of human nobility to the innermost corners of a child’s soul.”

Vasily Sukhomlinsky

“Very often a book that makes a deep impression on a young mind constitutes an era in a person’s life.”

Samuel Smiles

Aldous Huxley

“By accustoming a child to a book, you not only teach him to read, but also make his future life brighter, more interesting and richer.”

“Giving a child a taste for reading is the best gift we can give him.”

“The whole world needs to solve the problem of children’s reading, reading that not only immerses the child in the information environment, but also heals and elevates the soul of a growing person.”

Ekaterina Lakhova

“We don’t know a single person who was spoiled in childhood by reading classical writers, but how many it strengthened for life, showing noble goals ahead, how many it turned away from the vices of the environment!”

Victor Ostrogorsky

“One day you will be so old that you will start reading fairy tales again.”

Lewis Carroll

The place where books live

Speaking about books, we cannot ignore the places where they are collected - libraries. Nowadays, many of them, keeping up with the times, are computerized, but they are still those sacred places familiar to us from childhood, where an indescribable smell of books reigns and the air is literally saturated with the wisdom of bygone generations. This is said very subtly and aptly in quotes and aphorisms about the library and the book.

“Libraries are the most important thing in culture. There may not be universities, institutes, or other cultural institutions, but if there are libraries, culture will not perish in such a country.”

“As long as the library is alive, the people are alive. If she dies, our past and future will die.”

Dmitry Likhachev

“The library is a spare store where some people put their thoughts and discoveries, while others take them into growth.”

“The library is an open table of ideas to which everyone is invited.”

Alexander Herzen

“A library is a herbarium of feelings and passions, a vessel where dried samples of all civilizations are stored.”

Paul Claudel

“Freedom exists to go to the library.”

Joseph Brodsky

“What a pleasure it is to be in a good library! Looking at books is already happiness. Before you is a world worthy of the gods; you realize that you can take part in it and fill your cup to the brim.”

Charles Lamb

“Modern man finds himself in front of the Himalayas of libraries in the position of a gold digger who must select grains of gold from a mass of sand.”

Sergey Vavilov

“The collection of books is the same as the university.”

Thomas Carlyle

“A book is the friend of the lonely, and the library is the refuge of the homeless.”

Sergey Vititsky

“Every painting taken into a gallery, and every decent book that ends up in a library, no matter how small, serves a great cause - the accumulation of wealth in the country.”

Anton Chekhov

Russian writers about books

Russia has always rightfully been considered the most reading nation in the world. Of course, this is a reason for pride and gives hope for a bright future for our country. Quotes and aphorisms about books and reading by Russian writers are particularly profound and wise. Just listen to these lines...

“Love a book, it makes your life easier, it will help you sort out the colorful and stormy confusion of thoughts, feelings, events, it will teach you to respect people and yourself, it inspires your mind and heart with a feeling of love for the world, for humanity.”

“I owe everything good in me to books.”

Maksim Gorky

“Books are intertwined people.”

Alexander Pushkin

“A book is the world visible through a person.”

Isaac Babel

“Truly I say to you: it is given to the printed word to remain not only in time, but also above time.”

Nikolay Leskov

“When I see around me how people, not knowing what to do with their free time, are looking for the most miserable activities and entertainment, I look for a book and say internally: this alone is enough for a whole life.”

Fedor Dostoevsky

“The book is the life of our time, everyone needs it - both old and young.”

Vissarion Belinsky

“Books make a person better, and this is one of the main conditions and even the main, almost the only goal of art.”

Ivan Goncharov

“The only substitute for the experience we have not lived through is literature.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“I don’t like books with gold edges that stand untouched on the shelves. I love it when they are read to the gills.”

Mikhail Sholokhov

“A book is a great thing as long as a person knows how to use it.”

“Without reading real education, there is and cannot be any taste, no words, no multifaceted breadth of understanding; Goethe and Shakespeare are equal to a whole university. By reading a person survives centuries.”

Alexander Herzen

About books and their rivals

In the modern world, books have many competitors: television, movies, and social networks. But books do not lag behind and keep up with the times. E-books, audiobooks, and various reference books in digital format have appeared. After all, films and television shows cannot compare with books in the development of fantasy and creative imagination; they offer us ready-made images. In aphorisms and quotes about books and reading, all the advantages of books over modern methods of entertainment are very accurately noted and displayed.

“In a movie I watch others; a book allows me to become a different person for a while.”

“The best movie theater in the world is the brain, and you realize that when you read a good book.”

Ridley Scott

“Those who read books will always control those who watch TV.”

Felicia Janlis

“We must never forget that a book is the greatest blessing, a clot of mental energy; no cybernetics will ever replace it.”

Dmitry Ursu

“The two greatest inventions in history: printing, which put us in front of books, and television, which took us away from them.”

Georges Elgozy

“Television makes us more educated. When I see the TV on, I go into the next room and start reading.”

Groucho Marx

“A book or a movie – today the question is not even that. Do you like having your brains blown out at 24 frames per second?”

“Everyone needs to read. From a three-year-old girl to a decrepit old man. If you are wondering why read books, because there is the Internet, movies and music, then it is either too early or too late for you to start reading books. A person is formed by knowledge, knowledge of himself. And with this, like nothing else, a book helps. Whether it is good or bad, it is beneficial. A bad book makes you appreciate a good one, and a good book helps you see the bad in yourself. Everyone needs to read, always and everywhere.”

Books are not only a way to gain new knowledge. Nothing will help you relax and rest your soul more than holding your favorite book in your hands. Nothing will help drive away the melancholy and brighten up a lonely evening quite like the right book. After all, if you have books, you are no longer alone.

Read, friends! Discover new worlds that books open to us. And it doesn’t matter at all in what form you like to read: paper or electronic, let the book accompany you throughout your life. I want to end our conversation with my favorite aphorism:

“What do you prefer coffee with? With sugar, milk, cinnamon?
“I prefer with a book”

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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.

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 Vasilyevich 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)

A book is one of your closest friends. In books we find answers to questions, books give food for thought, books educate the person in us, books offer the best intellectual relaxation and flight of imagination, because in books, unlike films, there are no restrictions on special effects.

We have collected 20 of the most interesting sayings about the benefits of reading:

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
To become smart, you only need to read 10 books, but to find them, you need to read thousands.
Books are ships of thought, traveling on the waves of time and carefully carrying their precious cargo from generation to generation. © Francis Bacon
Trust books, they are the closest. They are silent when necessary, and speak, opening the world to you, when necessary.

The theme of the issue is statements about the benefits of books and reading, the authors of which are great people: writers, thinkers, poets, politicians and many others, bright representatives of humanity:

Without reading there is no real education, there is no and there can be no taste, no speech, no multifaceted breadth of understanding - Goethe and Shakespeare are equal to an entire university.

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

By reading a person survives centuries. Herzen A.

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

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.

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

Reading a book on time is a huge success. She is capable of changing life, just as her best friend and mentor will not.

A person with a good book in his hands can never be lonely. Goldoni K. (aphorisms about the benefits of reading)

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

A good, interesting book gives a lot of knowledge and awakens many good thoughts. Krupskaya N.K.

In order to improve culture, we must turn to the history of culture, to the entire cultural heritage of mankind, we need to know Russian literature and especially fiction. Kalinin M. I.

A good book is just a holiday. Gorky M.

Many thousands of years ago, the book, in the hands of the best representatives of humanity, became one of the main weapons in their struggle for truth and justice, and it was this weapon that gave these people terrible strength. Rubakin N. A.

Learned literature saves people from ignorance, and elegant literature saves people from rudeness and vulgarity. Chernyshevsky N. G.

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

How many days of labor, how many sleepless nights, how many mental efforts, how many hopes and fears, how many long lives of diligent study are poured out here in small typographic fonts and squeezed into the cramped space of the shelves around us. Smith A.

A book is a huge force. Lenin V.I.

Let every person, as far as possible, try to surround himself with good books. Channing W.

A book is the same phenomenon of life as a person, it is also a living, speaking fact, and it is less a “thing” than all other things created and being created by man. Gorky M.

To educate the people means to increase their morality; to make him literate is to civilize him. All kinds of rudeness melt away, as if on fire, under the influence of daily reading of good books. Hugo V.

The book has always been an adviser, a comforter, eloquent and calm for me, and I did not want to exhaust its benefits by saving them for the most important occasions. Sand J.

All good books are especially similar in that they certainly arouse in their readers a desire to think about what is fair, beautiful and useful for people. Chernyshevsky N. G.

The book is the most important and powerful instrument of socialist culture. Gorky M.

Nothing broadens the entire horizon of our concepts about nature and human life so much as a close acquaintance with the greatest minds of mankind. Pisarev D. I.

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

There is no more enlightening, soul-cleansing feeling than that which a person feels when acquainted with a great work of art. Saltykov-Shchedrin M. E.

Books are a tool for imparting wisdom. Komensky Ya.

We enjoy our communication with the highest minds of humanity mainly through books, and this medium of communication is available to us all. Channing W.

Books have the power of immortality. They are the most durable fruits of human activity. Smiles S.

There is no sweeter book in the world than a friend. Navoi A.

Book wealth, in its entirety, represents a literary mirror of life. Rubakin N. A.

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

Whoever loves a book will never lack a devoted friend, a saving adviser, a cheerful comrade, a real comforter. By reading, studying, thinking, a person can innocently entertain himself and spend his leisure time pleasantly at any time and in all the circumstances of fate. Barrow I.

Love the book - the source of knowledge, only knowledge is saving, only it can make you spiritually strong, honest, reasonable people who are able to sincerely love a person, respect his work and heartily admire the fruits of his continuous great work. Gorky M.

Literature has been removed from the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. Saltykov-Shchedrin M. E.

Love the book, it will make your life easier, it will help you sort out the colorful and stormy confusion of thoughts, feelings, events, it will teach you to respect people and yourself, it inspires your mind and heart with a feeling of love for the world, for people. Gorky M.

Collection of books - the same university, Carlyle T.

Morally cultured people, conscientious workers, grow up in families where there is deep respect for books. Sukhomlinsky V. A.

Books enlighten the soul, elevate and strengthen a person, awaken in him the best aspirations, sharpen his mind and soften his heart. Thackeray W.

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

Books make us heirs to the spiritual life of past centuries. Channing W.

Not having books is the highest degree of mental poverty; Don't bring yourself to this point. Ruskin D.

Books are friends, dispassionate but faithful. Hugo V.

There is no entertainment cheaper than reading books and no pleasure that lasts longer. Montague M.

The book is perhaps the most complex and great miracle of all the miracles created by humanity on the path to the happiness and power of the future. Gorky M.

One of the reasons for spiritual emptiness is the lack of genuine reading, which captures the mind and heart, causing thoughts about the world around us and about ourselves. Sukhomlinsky V. A.

The book makes a person the master of the universe. Pavlenko P. A.

The first book that hit your heart is like first love. This is a prism through which a person’s entire perception of the world will subsequently be unconsciously refracted. Forsh O. D.

The 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. Morozov N. A.

The past does not exist as long as books exist. Bulwer-Lytton E. D.

The book is the most patient, enduring and cheerful comrade. She will not turn away from us in times of distress or adversity. Smiles S.

With the help of a book, every literate person has the right and opportunity to enter the kingdom of the mind. Smiles S.

A book is a collective experience. Anyone who has read two dozen great books has lived two dozen great lives. Pavlenko P. A.

Anyone who was not familiar with the creations of the ancients lived without knowing beauty. Hegel G.

Sometimes readers come away from a book completely transformed. the proudest minds, and the most subtle, and the most delicate, and the simplest, and the greatest, submit to this charm. Hugo V.

A good library is a book reflection of the universe. Rubakin N. A.

If steam and railways destroyed distance, then printing destroyed time: thanks to it, we are all contemporaries. I am talking with Homer and Cicero, and the Homers and Ciceros of the future will talk with us. Lamartine A.

Give a person a love of reading and the means to satisfy it, and you will hardly fail to make a happy person; unless the least suitable books fall into his hands. Herschel D.

Often one powerful artistic image puts into our soul more than what has been gained through many years of life... Garshin V.M.

All good books are similar in one thing - when you read to the end, it seems to you that all this happened to you, and so it will remain with you forever: good or bad, delights, sorrows and regrets, people and places, and what was weather. Hemingway E.

I read a lot, with delight, with amazement, but books did not push me away from reality, but by increasing the tension of interest in it, they developed the ability to observe, compare, and kindled the thirst for knowledge of life. Gorky M.

In the overall picture of civilization, the place of each people is determined by the number of books they read. Labule E.

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

Libraries are treasuries of all the riches of the human spirit. Leibniz G.

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 R.

Without books, we can now neither live, nor fight, nor suffer, nor rejoice and win, nor confidently move towards that reasonable and beautiful future in which we unshakably believe. Paustovsky K. G.

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