Textbooks Quotes

160 Textbooks quotes by 142 unique authors

Each others' lives are our best textbooks. — Gloria Steinem
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak. — Scott Westerfeld
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. — Kiersten White
For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who… — Libba Bray
I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what… — John Green
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line… — James W. Loewen
Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ… — Carrie Fisher
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying… — Alan Kay
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them… — Albert Einstein
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you. — Stan Getz
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized… — Marilyn Ferguson
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the… — John Hope Franklin
A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion… — Petr Skrabanek
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach… — Alfred Adler
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are… — Stephen Jay Gould
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics. — Osman Rashid
Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them. — Osman Rashid
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks… — Queen Rania of Jordan
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will… — Scott Stossel
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people.… — Ken Ham
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and… — Craig Brown
While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market… — Elliott Abrams

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