Books Quotes
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.Saint Bernard, Epistle
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?Karl Kraus
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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
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)
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.Voltaire
I cannot live without books.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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.
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
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Samuel Paterson
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
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
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
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
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
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
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.Heinrich Heine
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)
