Book Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin

“He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the…

— Caleb Colton

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it,…

— Elbert Hubbard