Book Quote by Jeremy Taylor

“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what he thanked…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a…

— Alexandre Dumas

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire…

— Samuel Johnson

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

“As he learned more from his father in school he was led to reading every book he could find as long as it was…

— Sam Wellman

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of…

— Anonymous

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations…

— Samuel Johnson

“Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types…

— Jodi Picoult

“I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“learning to read awoke a touching thirst for knowledge. ‘Send me a list of books published on comets, stars, water, the earth, and sky.”

— S.A. Smith

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