Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas
I have read your book and much like it. — Moses Hadas
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This… — Swami Vivekananda
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. — Herman Melville
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel de Montaigne
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There… — Bill Maher
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind — Thomas Jefferson
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I… — Isaac Asimov
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the… — Nan Fairbrother
And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try… — Unknown Author
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it. — Chris Brogan
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
Education is the process of selling someone on books. — Douglas Wilson
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he… — William James
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms,… — Djuna Barnes
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what… — Rudyard Kipling
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make… — Bruce Hutchison
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. — Mary Ellen Chase
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write… — Arthur C. Clarke
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus

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