Great Books Quotes
52 quotes by 44 authors
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
— Martin Amis
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I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent…
— Shimon Peres
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
— Anita Brookner
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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend…
— Edward Abbey
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement.…
— B.F. Skinner
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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to…
— Ronald Fisher
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Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different…
— Bret Lott
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Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
— Thomas Ehrlich
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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of…
— John Cowper Powys
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for…
— Betsy Lerner
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Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot. But…
— Po Bronson
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The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.
— Robin Sharma
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They…
— Billy Joel
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Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is…
— Joan Erikson
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
— Joseph Joubert
Who Wrote These Great Books Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 52 Great Books Quotes, led by these top contributors: