Books Quote by Albert Camus

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

— Thomas Carlyle

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read.…

— Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a…

— Thomas Carlyle

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning…

— John B. Watson

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

— George Washington

I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.

— George Washington

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

— William Godwin

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire…

— Samuel Johnson