Books Quote by Gilbert Highet

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”

— Gilbert Highet

“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!”

— Gilbert Highet

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

— Gilbert Highet

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and…

— Gilbert Highet

“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so…

— Kim Edwards

“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

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human souls we…

— Charles Kingsley

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.”

— Amanda Craig

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw…

— Charles Kingsley

“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.”

— Will Schwalbe

“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia,…

— Carl Sagan