Books Quote by Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU”

— A.C. Grayling

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the…

— Jim Rohn

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow…

— Clarence Day

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you age, you…

— Douglas Coupland

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

— Abraham Lincoln

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader,…

— Lawrence Clark Powell