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Quotes About Books

It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
~ Benjamin Wittes
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
~ Pico Iyer
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept.
~ Francis Collins
Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.
~ Jean Smart
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
~ William Wordsworth
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
~ China Mieville
The love for literature is the key to knowledge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I have met many sacred souls in reading.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.
~ Abhijit Naskar
I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books
~ China Mieville
The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I'm not interested in teaching books by women.
~ David Gilmour
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
~ Isabel Allende
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi
~ António Lobo Antunes
I've never made a penny from any of the school stuff I've done. I've had brands asking me if they can sponsor my channel for a year, stuff like that. But I've never monetised it. My books and my 90-Day Plan are my business.
~ Joe Wicks