Book Quote by Francesco Petrarca

“O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when we sat…

— Alcuin of York

“I knew that the languages which one learns there are necessary to understand the works of the ancients; and that the delicacy of fiction…

— Anonymous

“Books are essential nourishment to the mind.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)”

— Terentianus Maurus

“Cave ab homine unius libri. (Fear the man of one book)”

— Anonymous Latin

“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.”

— Anonymous

“Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books are ambiguos…

— Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.”

— Hippocrates