Books Quote by Moulay Abdallah Boulaassair

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

— Chinese Proverbs

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

— Anonymous

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

— Richard Baxter

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

— Isaac Barrow

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

— Mark Haddon

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years

— English Proverb

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is…

— John Green

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

— Lin Yutang

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

— Studs Terkel

I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions…

— Christopher Bollen

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel,…

— Anonymous