Books Quote by Leon Wieseltier Download Open image ““A wall of books is a wall of windows.”” — Leon Wieseltier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“If I had to choose between a wall of paintings and a wall of books, I would certainly choose books. When you walk into… — Timothy Mauson Copy Share Image
“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I wish there were a way to see through walls. Oh yeah, there is—windows. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If the eyes are the window to one's soul then books must be the doorway to the universe.” — Jeffrey Michael Copy Share Image
“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Many books mean many windows; many windows mean many new lights! Don’t get stuck in one window, one book, one man, one country and… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Books are doors to other dimensions, you never know where they are going to take you.” — F. Carod Copy Share Image
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share
“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, — Leon Wieseltier 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
