---
title: "2 Books Know Quotes By Alberto Manguel"
description: "2 Books Know quotes by Alberto Manguel. Plus more from Alberto Manguel and more Books Know sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/alberto-manguel-2467_books_like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely_1941710.jpg"
---

> [“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely-more-than-i-do-and-i-m/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/alberto-manguel-2467_books_like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely_1941710.jpg)

> [“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into-a-room-made-of-books-can-know/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/alberto-manguel-2467_book_no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into_2600862.jpg)

## More by Alberto Manguel

> [Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/most-readers-then-and-now-have-at-some-time-experienced-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/libraries-whether-my-own-or-shared-with-a-greater-reading-public-have/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/at-different-times-and-in-different-places-i-have-come-to-expect/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-have-no-feelings-of-guilt-regarding-the-books-i-have-not-read-and/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/then-one-day-from-the-window-of-a-car-the-destination-of-that-journey/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-shelves-of-books-we-haven-t-written-like-those-of-books-we-haven/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-have-no-feeling-of-guilt-regarding-the-books-i-have-not-read-and/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/old-books-that-we-have-known-but-not-possessed-cross-our-path-and/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/ordered-by-subject-by-importance-ordered-according-to-whether-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [The starting point is a question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-starting-point-is-a-question/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/ljubav-je-imbecilna-izvesnost-pomo-u-koje-na-a-fantazija-stvara/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-know-that-something-dies-when-i-give-up-my-books-and-that-my-memory/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/something-about-the-possession-of-a-book-an-object-that-can-contain/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/maybe-this-is-why-we-read-and-why-in-moments-of-darkness-we-return-to/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-centuries-of-dictators-have-known-an-illiterate-crowd-is-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Books Know Quotes By Alberto Manguel",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Alberto Manguel"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely-more-than-i-do-and-i-m/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/alberto-manguel-2467_books_like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely_1941710.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/alberto-manguel-2467_books_like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely_1941710.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/alberto-manguel-2467_books_like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely_1941710.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my…” — Alberto Manguel",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance--and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives found friendly.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Alberto Manguel"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into-a-room-made-of-books-can-know/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/alberto-manguel-2467_book_no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into_2600862.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/alberto-manguel-2467_book_no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into_2600862.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/alberto-manguel-2467_book_no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into_2600862.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is…” — Alberto Manguel",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/",
            "name": "Books Know Quotes by Alberto Manguel",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/alberto-manguel-2467_books_like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely_1941710.jpg"
            },
            "description": "2 Books Know quotes by Alberto Manguel. Plus more from Alberto Manguel and more Books Know sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Books Know",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Alberto Manguel",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-know/alberto-manguel/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```