Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will… — Gerald Durrell
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with… — Fulton J. Sheen
The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written… — Arch Ward
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was… — Clifton Fadiman
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. — Unknown Author
One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian… — Daniel C. Peterson
Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly… — Daniel C. Peterson
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want.… — Gerhard Zeiler
We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary. — Unknown Author
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. — Unknown Author
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start… — Gracie Allen
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is… — Yoshida Kenko
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after… — Wallace Carothers
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of… — William Harvey
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Unknown Author
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be… — Archibald Geikie
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know;… — Evariste Galois
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving… — Charles V. Chapin
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true. — Unknown Author
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute… — Jerry A. Coyne

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