Book Quote by Ezra Pound Download Open image “No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.” — Ezra Pound ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Happiness Learning Man U Reading
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
One can read every book ever written, but it means nothing if one does not comprehend the message. — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
