Book Quote by Benjamin Jowett Download Open image “One man is as good as another until he has written a book.” — Benjamin Jowett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford]… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
“The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.” — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
