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Great Books Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
- The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach…
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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… — Martin Amis
- I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres
- The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner
- In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey
- We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is… — B.F. Skinner
- The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern… — Ronald Fisher
- Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made… — Bret Lott
- Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich
- Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys
- When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner