Believed Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believed Believed Subjected Book Books Books Believed Inquiry Inspirational Made Subjected Inquiry Writer
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“I didn't know if I believed in 'happily ever after' anymore. I mean, I didn't know what would happen tomorrow, let alone for forever… — Stephanie Kate Strohm Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
I never believed that they was such thing as love at first sight but I think I'm having that feeliing @sarahlovemoody — Mishack Copy Share Image
“I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.” — Amy McNamara Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I never believed I'd have a six-pack, especially not at 35 years old. I always thought it was a genetic blessing. It's not. You… — Sullivan Stapleton Copy Share Image
“For a moment, I believed you.” He ordered me, dryly, recovering his usual poise again. He does not only have a selective hearing, but… — Tionne Rogers Copy Share Image
