Book Quote by Pliny the Younger

“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.”

— Pliny the Younger

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the…

— Laurence Sterne

Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

— George Henry Lewes

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be…

— Will Cuppy

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that…

— Daniel Levitin

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think…

— Gordon Korman

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum

“all good books are bad!”

— Elinor Ostrom

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that…

— John Milton

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

— Paulo Coelho