Books Quotes

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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
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
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
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esa
Samuel smiles - the experience to be gathered from books, though...
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Samuel Paterson
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
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
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.
Robert Fulghum
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
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
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Why dont you write books people can read.
Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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
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
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
Heinrich Heine
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Laurie Anderson
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
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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