Without Books Quotes

47 quotes by 36 authors

A home without books is a body without soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. — Terry Brooks
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the… — Louis L'Amour
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. — Ken Follett
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. — Manuel Rivas
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without… — Susanna Clarke
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music,… — Axel Munthe
We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage… — Malcolm Knowles
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. — Thomas Jefferson
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books — Mencius
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. — Alfred Nobel
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development… — Barbara Tuchman
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open… — Oprah Winfrey
A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. — Malala Yousafzai
A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked. — Leah Price
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. — Hermann Hesse
I cannot live without books. — Thomas Jefferson

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