Book Quotes
"Books can be a source of relaxation; they can take you to places that you may never have been otherwise."


"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

"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

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

"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson

"Book: A garden carried in a pocket."
Arabian Proverb

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Northrup Frye

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"You may plan to write a book some day, but you are living a book every day."
Wilferd Peterson

"There are other books that can help provide insight into the whole process of developing a better life but the whole point is that there are resources to consult when you feel you need a little help."
Catherine Pulsifer, Much To My Surprise


Learning how to learn is lifes most important skill
Learning


"You cannot
open a book
without learning
something."
Confucius



Related




"I have always imagined
that paradise will be
a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges




"A library is not
a luxury but
one of the necessities
of life."
Henry Ward Beecher




"A book holds
a house of gold."
Chinese Proverb


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