Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up...
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.
We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That’s what I take with my morning tea.
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
Maybe you could be a great writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write that English paper – that English class paper that’s assigned to you.
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we’ve always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
We cannot learn men from books.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
Books are the curse of the human race.
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.