Book Quote by William Gilbert Download Open image “Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.” — William Gilbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Knowledge Looks
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom — Robert S. Jepson, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 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
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
