Book Quote by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

“Books are essential nourishment to the mind.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries heft, and…

— Steven L. Carter

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than…

— Rebecca Caudill

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

— Louis L'Amour

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless”

— Victor Hugo

“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed…

— Ian Watt

“You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which book you…

— Robin Sacredfire

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

“The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places… Always bear in mind that your own resolution to…

— Anonymous