Book Quote by Ezra Pound

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of…

— Ezra Pound

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years…

— Louis L'Amour

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

— Anonymous

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

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 doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

— Henry Ward Beecher