Book Quotes

""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

"Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself."
Maxim Gorky

"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page."
Author Unknown

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Thomas Rowan

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life."
Norman Cousins

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations."
Sir Winston Churchill

"Books give us wisdom in words!"
Catherine Pulsifer, from Motivational, Inspirational Book Reviews

"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

“When I am reading a book, whether wise or sill, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.”
Swift

"Everyone who know how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting."
Aldous Huxley

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
Henry Ward Beecher

"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 books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
Theodore Parker

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain

"Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
George William Curtis

"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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