Books Quote by Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”

— Benjamin Franklin

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books…

— Samuel Johnson

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

He is wise that is wise to himself.

— Euripides

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

— Hans Christian Andersen

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor