Books Quotes
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
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
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
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
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
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
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
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
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.Heinrich Heine
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.Voltaire
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 biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.Jackie Collins
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
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
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
Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.Martin Luthe
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.Ford Maddox
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
