Books Quotes

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Best, Truth

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

Learn, Sea, Earth

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing, Else, House

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher

Three, Everybody, Senses

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Learning, Serenity

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

Men, Alive, Stay

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

Life, Good, Reading

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

Good, Past, Minds

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike Tyson

Deep, Read, Stuff

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Friends, Few

A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Home, Soul, Body

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

Love, Friends, Old

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.
Hillary Clinton

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen King

Good, Bad, Book

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace

Alone, Wisdom, Derived

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan

Single, American, Year

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Wise, Troubles

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson

Good, Real, Him

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Done, Thought, Magic

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

Making, Progress, Content

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

True, Days, University

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

History, Lives, Blood

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Past, Soul

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Noam Chomsky

History, Bible, Genocidal

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

Money, Food, Left

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

Teacher, Wise, Study

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Envy

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

Beauty, Great, Truth

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Good, Read

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