Believe Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

— John Henry Newman

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

— Louis L'Amour

Books are sepulchres of thought.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

— Daniel Kahneman

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author…

— Pierre Bayle

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely…

— Virginia Woolf

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

— Anonymous

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

— I. A. Richards

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

— Nora Ephron

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

— Lev Grossman