Books Quote by Richard Livingstone

A good book is an education of the heart.

— Susan Sontag

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

There's more learning than is taught in books.

— Lady Gregory

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial…

— B. F. Skinner

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

— Robert S. Jepson, Jr

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth more than a ton of head learning.

— Anonymous

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of…

— William Hazlitt

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

— Mencius

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd