Books Quotes
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
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.Saint Bernard, Epistle
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.George Withe
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
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
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.Miguel de Cervantes
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.Paxton Hood
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
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.Thomas More
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.John Hope Franklin
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
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
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Umberto Eco
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.Sir Arthur Eddington
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.John Burrough
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.Van Wyck Brooks
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
