Books Quotes

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

Money, Food, Left

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory

Great, History, Victory

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

Best, Far, Parts

The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann

Children, Means, House

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

Others, Few, Chewed

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Learned, Seems

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Design, Nothing

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman

Education, Thought, Race

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write, Themselves, Desire

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Try, Difficult

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli

Mother, Bad, Children

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nonsense, Clever, Existing

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

Men, Cannot, Learn

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

God, Devil, Written

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hate, Nothing, Talk

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck Palahniuk

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

Through, Personal, Expect

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison

Great, Down, Genius

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Time, Two, Divided

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

Mind, Another, Carry

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Good, Read

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Time, Two, Hour

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

Life, Short, Few

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin

Care, Nation, Public

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal

Today, Write, Read

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler

Wish, Keep, Mine

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