Ass Quote by Saadi

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

— Khalil Gibran

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

— Saadi

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,…

— John Godfrey Saxe

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books…

— Samuel Johnson

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly…

— S. R. Ranganathan

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies his content, wants it.

— George Herbert

Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that…

— Virginia Woolf

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf