Book Quote by Anonymous

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

— H. L. Mencken

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

— Richard Baxter

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

“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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

— Mark Twain

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that…

— Virginia Woolf

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until…

— Ezra Pound

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations…

— Samuel Johnson