Books Quote by Allan Bloom

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

— Thomas Carlyle

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an…

— Roger Kimball

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

— Thomas Carlyle

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even”

— James W. Loewen

“I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our…

— Martha Southgate

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as…

— Os Guinness

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult…

— Henry Miller

“Modern education does no favour to the children it is supposed to teach when it de-emphasizes facts; although facts are not the only important…

— Hans Eysenck