Books Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

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

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that…

— Daniel Levitin

“Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.”

— M.H. Van Keuren

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

“Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need…

— Lindsay Carricarte-Jones

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— H. L. Mencken

“Behind every stack of books is a flood of knowledge”

— Eddie Conlon

“A million books’ worth of theoretical knowledge couldn’t equal one direct experience of the self.”

— Omar Delawar

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

— Gordon B. Hinckley