Books Quote by Sam Wellman

“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents…

— Haruki Murakami

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in…

— Charles Cumming

“He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him,”

— Edna O'Brien

“As he learned more from his father in school he was led to reading every book he could find as long as it was…

— Sam Wellman

“And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.”…

— Adam Houge

“I call him truly learned who brings everything to bear on the truth, so that from geometry, music, grammar, and philosophy itself, culling what…

— Clement of Alexandria

“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…

— Kenneth Grahame

“He'd only read a little of Bible, but from everything he heard about Jesus, he didn't thing the man would be especially happy about…

— Marshall Thornton

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert