Books Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by…

— Jonathan Haidt

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

— Oscar Wilde

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

— Theophile Gautier

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

— Mark Twain

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without…

— Muhammad Asad

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

— Mark Twain

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we…

— David Bezmozgis

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

— Kedar Joshi

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great…

— Malcolm Bradbury

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're…

— Ursula K. Le Guin