Book Quote by William Martin

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man is known by …..

— Vikrant Parsai

Man is what he reads.

— Joseph Brodsky

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

— Walter Mosley

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton