Books Quotes
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
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.John Hope Franklin
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
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
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
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.Samuel Butle
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Walter Bagehot
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
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
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
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
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
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
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.Shakespeare
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.Paul Fussell
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
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
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
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.Heinrich Heine
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
I live for books.Thomas Jefferson
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
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)
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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lam
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
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.Thomas More
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.Spanish Prove
