Books Quotes

Francois marie arouet voltaire - the instruction we find in books is like fire. we...
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 Happy Life, 1896
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine
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
Henry david thoreau - books are the carriers of civilization. without...
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
Pietro Aretino
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Ford Maddox
Rene descartes - the reading of all good books is indeed like a...
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William E. Channing
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
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
Laurie Anderson
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
Francois Arouet
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
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 man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.
Thomas Carlyle
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
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
Peter S. Prescott
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.
Robert Fulghum
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
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
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
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
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
James Baldwin
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
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
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
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esa
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
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
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton