Books Quotes
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.Voltaire
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.Charles Jones
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.Alfred A. Montapert
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
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
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
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
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
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
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.Thomas Davidson
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
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
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
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
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
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.Carl Sagan
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
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
I cannot live without books.Thomas Jefferson
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 suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.Edward Morgan Forste
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
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
