Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will.… — Winston Churchill
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very… — Robert Anton Wilson
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical… — F. F. Bruce
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope… — Edna Buchanan
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. — Harvey Pekar
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home — Ulysses S. Grant
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty… — Milton Friedman
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Books follow morals, and not morals books. — Theophile Gautier
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was… — John Bunyan
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest… — J C Ryle
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books… — J C Ryle
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. — J C Ryle
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell… — Dorothy Day
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever… — Brad Meltzer
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with… — Harper Lee
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after… — Sergey Brin
I've actually not read any books on time management. — Elon Musk
Tony Abbott's books are so amazing! — Tony Abbott
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee… — Brian Tracy
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines — Christian Lacroix

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