Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. — Heinz Pagels
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift
Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught… — Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,… — Abraham Lincoln
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them — Anatole France
Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or… — Sri Chinmoy
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in… — Benjamin Franklin
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we… — Leo Rosten
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will… — Herman Melville
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people… — Rajneesh
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are… — A. S. Byatt
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — Milla Jovovich
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this… — Sharon Olds
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson

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