Books Quote by Francis Bacon

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

“The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.”

— Bacon, Francis

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning.…

— Greg Weisman

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I…

— Tahereh Mafi

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles

“no one has ever built them before in written history. (But much of history is unwritten. Remember this.)”

— N.K. Jemisin

“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.”

— Dan Simmons

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.”

— Carl T. Rowan

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust