Books Quotes

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Ford Maddox

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

John Hope Franklin

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.

H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".

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

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington

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

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Karl Kraus

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Emerson

I mean your borrowers of books - Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Charles Lam

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

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

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

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

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

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esa

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

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 are the way the dead talk to the living.

Laurie Anderson

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Jackie Collins

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

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

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.

Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926

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

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beeche

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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