Books Alone Quotes
- Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather… — Francis Quarles
- There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. — Mark Rylance
- Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard de Bury
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. — Martin Luther
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. — Mark Twain
- Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. — Horace