Books Quotes
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.Augustine Birrell
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
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
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.Arthuer Schopenhaue
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
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)
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
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.Lord Chesterfield
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
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
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.Mortimer Adle
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)
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
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
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
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Joseph Addison
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
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
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.Jean Anouilh
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
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
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
