Quotes about Books

"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

"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 Inspirational Book Reviews

“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

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

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