Biographies Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of…

— Jenny Han

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

— Carole Bouquet

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

We don't simply read books. We become them.

— Anatole Broyard

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

— Huston Smith

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of…

— William Hazlitt

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good…

— Stephen King

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge…

— Helen Keller