Bird Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I only know two types of readers: The vultures and the birds. The vultures are constantly reading books written by dead authors, can only…

— Robin Sacredfire

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

— John James Audubon

[Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach…

— James Wolcott

“Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?”

— Lionel Suggs

“All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are…

— Halldor Laxness

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new…

— Henry David Thoreau

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine…

— William Golding

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they…

— David Attenborough

“The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every…

— Kyo Maclear

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

— William Hazlitt

“more books more knowledge”

— Hawa Snz Tyler Eisen

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much…

— Piero Scaruffi