Book Quote by Thomas Merton

“How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of…

— Thomas Merton

“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

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

— Stacy Schiff

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

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

“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us,…

— Nema Al-Araby

“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes…

— Pierre Bayard

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the…

— William Butler Yeats

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

— Katherine Rundell

“The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes a limit,…

— Georges Bataille

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

— T. S. Eliot

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction)…

— Tom Robinson