Books Quotes
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.E. M. Forste
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.Sir William Osle
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.Lyndon B. Johnson
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.William E. Channing
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.Paxton Hood
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.Charles W. Eliot
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.Voltaire
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.John Hope Franklin
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.Arthur Schopenhaue
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.Paul Fussell
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
