Book Quote by William Faulkner

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

— William Faulkner

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the…

— George Orwell

“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln

Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.”

— George MacDonald

“Thinking Thinking is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. When the idea enters the mind,…

— Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“The way he talked about thoughts was the way i experienced them---not as a choice,but as a destiny. Not a catalog of my consciousness,…

— John Green