Acquire Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

— William Gilbert

“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

“Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.”

— Chandan Sharma

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into…

— Samuel Johnson

“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a…

— Alexandre Dumas

“study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.”

— Sean Clouden

Books are the training weights of the mind.

— Epictetus

“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, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

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