Books Quotes
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
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
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.E. M. Forste
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
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
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.Spanish Prove
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.William Lyon Phelps
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
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
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
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
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
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
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
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
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
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
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
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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)
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
