When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

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.
Maimonides

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
Mike Myers

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.
Stephen Colbert

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

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

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

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

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

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor Geisel

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert Kiyosaki

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

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