Book Quote by Thomas Carlyle

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university…

— Albert Camus

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a…

— Thomas Carlyle

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

— William Gilbert

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

— George Washington

I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.

— George Washington

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge;…

— H. W. Brands

“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 remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Chandan Sharma

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read.…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Sean Clouden

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

— Thomas Carlyle