Books Quotes

Voltaire - you despise books; you whose lives are absorbed...
Henry ward beeche - where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?...
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
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
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
Lord chesterfield - learning is acquired by reading books, but the...
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
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Sir John Lubbock
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Ford Maddox
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Henry Ward Beeche
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
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
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
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
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Romare Beardon
I still find each day to 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
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.
Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
Samuel Butle
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
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
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
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
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
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lam