Ancient Quote by Gary Wolf Download Open image “Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.” — Gary Wolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Book Books Inspires Medium Passion Physical Proven
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“After all, much of the fondness avid readers, and certainly collectors, have for their books is related to the books' physical bodies. As much… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories.… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience,… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
