Quotes About Books

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

If you read, you will transform your life.

For me, reading begins at home.

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that it is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.

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What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.

If we could live a thousand years, and experience a thousand relationships in the thousand times and places and cultures, perhaps we wouldn't need books in order to (eventually) become wise. But our lives are short, and God has been merciful to give us many places, many times, many cultures, and many experiences distilled into books. Find the ones that strengthen your faith and make you want to live all-out for God.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

Great Books Reader is a useful first handbook for facilitating one important virtue: being well-read. Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn't the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of a Great Book; no Christian leader ought to choose illiteracy or intentionally fail to develop the intellectual skills needed to read well.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

A book worth reading is worth owning.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.