Book Quote by Wallace Stegner

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have…

— Henry David Thoreau

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

— Pat Conroy

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they…

— Winston Churchill

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to…

— Charles Darwin

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

— Anonymous

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human…

— Jesse Lee Bennett

He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.

— Emilio Castelar

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

— Huston Smith

Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover…

— Frank Oppenheimer

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map… A…

— Stephen King