Achievement Quote by Pierre L. van den Berghe

“It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to…

— Richard Fletcher

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand of his…

— Ivan Kireyevsky

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us…

— Anne Lamott

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.”

— James F. Amos

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.”

— Steffan Piper

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by…

— Justin Winsor

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson