Book Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

— Anonymous

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

— Richard Baxter

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

— T. S. Eliot

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Mark Twain

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

— Donna Pomona

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf