Book Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

— Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

— Malcolm X

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige…

— Samuel Johnson

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

— Marjane Satrapi

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man knows himself as an original.

— Washington Allston

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

— Winston Churchill

The title's more important than the book.

— Larry Winget