Quotes About Books

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

You can either acquire knowledge through a library or just have a Saggitarius friend!

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository