Book Quote by Anthony Trollope

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most…

— William Allingham

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.”

— St Augustine

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years…

— Louis L'Amour

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”

— Vincent Starrett

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

— Francis Bacon

“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not read, believing…

— Pamela Paul