Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

“His whole mind has been given to books, and I am hardly exaggerating if I say that they are more real to him than…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations…

— 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

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until…

— Ezra Pound

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to…

— Swami Vivekananda

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a…

— Samuel Johnson

“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than…

— Rebecca Caudill

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of…

— Anonymous

“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