Book Quote by William Osler

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

— Anthony Burgess

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular…

— Echo Bodine

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

— Alexandra Petri

Books are often far more than just books.

— Roxane Gay

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

— Don Paterson

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve their mental…

— Anonymous

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more…

— A. Edward Newton