Books Quotes
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
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.Voltaire
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
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
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.Charles Jones
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
I still find each day too 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
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
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 own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
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
Read much, but not many books.Benjamin Franklin
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.Desiderius Erasmus
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
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
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.Jerry Seinfeld
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 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
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
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.Evan Esa
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.Claude Adrien Helvetius
