Book Quote by Julia McNair Wright Download Open image “Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.” — Julia McNair Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Forever Form Habit Habits Live forever Philosophy of Mind
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need… — Lindsay Carricarte-Jones Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves...far distant in time...speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim,… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image