Books Quote by René Descartes

“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If…

— Fred Chappell

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do…

— Dee Williams

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their…

— Jane Austen

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a…

— Frederick Douglass

“Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion to accumulate…

— Mervyn Peake

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their…

— Jane Austen

“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…

— Gustave Le Bon

“For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and…

— Lew Wallace

“I was ignorant at first of bookish subjects, but in his atmosphere, if one were no student, and didn't even try to keep up,…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely…

— Jane Austen