Believe Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult…

— Henry Miller

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

— Bliss Perry

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

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan