Book Quotes
A collection of inspirational book quotes, sayings and thoughts on books. May you find wisdom in the words of these quotes and sayings. A collection of books an be an old friend. Every book, every volume, every booklet is a collection of someone's thoughts. You can find many good quotations and phrases as you read a book, when you find these words of wisdom write them down for later reflection."For books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
Amy Lowell
"From your parents you learn love and laughter
and how to put one foot before the other.
But when books are opened you discover you have wings."
Helen Hayes
"Books may well be the only true magic."
Alice Hoffman
"If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Thomas Carlyle
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures;
one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."
Vincent van Gogh
"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?"
Gandhi
"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."
George Bernard Shaw
"Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself."
Maxim Gorky
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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.
Wendell Ford
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
Ezra Pound
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
Mortimer Jerome Adler
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Confucius
"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page."
Author Unknown
"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"Books have a life of their own."
Latin Proverb
"Book: A garden carried in a pocket."
Arabian Proverb
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read."
Mark Twain
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Cicero
"Books are the quietest and most constant friends; they are the most accessible
and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
Charles W. Eliot
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Northrup Frye
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind
as well as the body."
Margaret Fuller
"You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books."
Carter Burden
"Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn."
Leo Tolstoy
"There are many types of books, fiction, non fiction, rule books, the Good Book, reference books, to name only a few. But the
best book is one that the words leave you thinking, and you find yourself reflecting on its content."
Catherine Pulsifer
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