Top Ten Quotes on Books

 Enjoy the wisdom in these top ten quotes on books. Books are the best thing to have in a home. No matter what is going on in your life reading a good book can be a relaxing thing to do.

1. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon

2. "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

3. "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

4. "The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read." Mark Twain

5. "Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind
as well as the body." Margaret Fuller

7. "Books have a life of their own." Proverb

8. "A room without books is like a body without a soul." Cicero

9. "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

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




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More wisdom to consider about books:

"Books give us wisdom in words!"


"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Wisdom from 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

"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

"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



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

"A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years."
Thomas Jefferson

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
John Ruskin

"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."
Carl Becker

"Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch."
Francis Bacon

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

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
Abraham Lincoln

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
Wisdom from W. Somerset Maugham

"Reading books that have a positive influence on your thinking can truly change your life. You may find your perceptions and beliefs challenged as you read these books. But, challenging our own beliefs is one way of learning to expand our thoughts and minds."
Catherine Pulsifer, What Do You Feed Your Mind

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

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