Books Quote by John Nash

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

— Cathleen Schine

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

— Victor Hugo

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

— Michel de Montaigne

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball

I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard.

— Immortal Tech

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

— Frances Osborne

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’…

— Vladimir Nabokov

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material;…

— George MacDonald

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Life Taught Me A Lots Of Lessons But As Usual I Bunked Those Classes !!

— Karal