Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.”

— Brandt Legg

“Books are the enemy of ignorance.”

— Steven Donkin

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.”

— Anonymous

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and…

— Carlos María Domínguez

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their…

— Anonymous

“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books.…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“There are far more a worst crimes than burning books… Not reading them.”

— Joseph Brodsky