It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
James A. Baldwin

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya

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

The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
William Glasser

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily Tomlin

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner

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

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

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette Midler

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver

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

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