Book Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

— Elie Wiesel

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

— Leonard Cohen

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

— George Santayana

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history…

— Jostein Gaarder

A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly.…

— Lucy Worsley

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

— Louis L'Amour

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act…

— Italo Calvino

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

— Charles Kettering

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr