Books Quotes

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.… — Mark Twain
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps… — Nils Kjaer
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you… — Joseph Campbell
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they… — George Crabbe
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. — Oscar Levant
Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both… — Patricia Heaton
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However… — Mark Twain
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love. — Sathya Sai Baba
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were… — Johannes Kepler
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. — Jean Rostand
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. — Christopher Dawson
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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