Books Quotes
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?Bette Midle
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
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
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.W. H. Auden
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.Peter S. Prescott
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
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
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
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
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
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
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
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 are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.Umberto Eco
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
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.
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
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
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
