Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books…

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“But willpower is necessary only where _ability_ to do is lacking. Learning ... is not the training of willpower but the acquisition of the…

— Moshé Feldenkrais

I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So…

— Paul Smith

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could…

— Ramona Koval

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they’re the closest thing I have…

— Jim C. Hines

“...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was…

— James Salter

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of…

— William Faulkner

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

— G. E. M. Skues

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

— Henry David Thoreau

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which…

— Nicolas Chamfort

All I have learned, I learned from books.

— Abraham Lincoln

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

— Paul Smith

“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their…

— Elizabeth McCracken