Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

— William Wordsworth

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore,…

— Anonymous

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.”

— Mahbud

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit…

— William Hazlitt

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has…

— C.S. Lewis

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur…

— Louis L'Amour