Quotes
Quotes about Books
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do on chewing gum.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Never lend booksânobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.
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.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
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.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
