Quotes About Books

I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who lived in them, for the sublime pleasure of disappearing. But not until now, at the threshold of this perilous summer, have I ever turned to storybooks for instruction.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they confiscated all books about Ehrlich and burned them in an attempt to expunge his name from German history.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Çok kitap okuyan insanlara hayat?n yetmedi?ini biliyordu.

Book lovers are not necessarily people lovers.

Books are like a ticket to a movie, you don't know if it's a great movie or not, the title and annotation are like a movie trailer. If the book contains schematic specifics, then the film was a success. If not, then this is a subjective banality, a fog of ignorance and ignorance and advertising of your name.

Anyone can easily read good books, but only well-prepared or mentally fit individuals will benefit.

Gautama Buddha realized that learning from others will never make him grow. Only self-knowledge matters. So, he decided to go beyond books and sought out nature as the best teacher.

Most books are worthy but they are not practical. Because I am a lover of non-fiction works.

My family approved all of my books, after that I didn't care what the world would whisper behind my back.

One book makes a complete religion. Let the future authors aim for quality rather than quantity.

Reading more books will only confuse you more and you will be dreaming about success instead of becoming successful yourself.

That individual who reads useful books is no longer on the same plane of thinking as those who neglected them.

There will always be a touch of fiction in non-fiction books and reality in works of fiction.

Today, the majority of preachers compete to write more personal books, rather than trying to compete to master the holy scriptures first.

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.

If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.