Books Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Ezra Pound

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

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to…

— Swami Vivekananda

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations…

— Samuel Johnson

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

— Mark Twain

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

— Anonymous

A man who is ignorant of books is one with whom no discussion is possible.

— Vikrant Parsai

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

One can never have too many books.

— Reed Krakoff