Book Quote by Anonymous

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author…

— Pierre Bayle

“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A book without words is a mind without thought.”

— Catherine Forbes

Books are sepulchres of thought.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at a given…

— Phillip Lewis

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

— Henry David Thoreau

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely…

— Virginia Woolf

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

— Edward P. Morgan

A book is a machine to think with.

— Anonymous