Alone Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things 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

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until…

— Ezra Pound

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.

— Georg Simmel

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby