Book Quote by Richard de Bury Download Open image “Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.” — Richard de Bury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Delight Instruments
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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