Books Sayings & Quotes
These books sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. - Donald J. 'Don' Adams
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. - Albert Einstein
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books. - Robertson Davies
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them, the senses, intelligent companions, and books. - Henry Ward Beecher
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. - Robert Maynard Hutchins
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.