When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.
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.
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It’s time to stop reading. It’s time to lay down the books and write.
Knowledge exists in two forms – lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.