Books Quotes
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
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
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
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
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
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
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
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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, The Happy Life, 1896
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
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
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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 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
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
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.Sir Arthur Eddington
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.Sir William Osle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.Michel de Montaigne
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
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
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
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
