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Books Quotes

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart Picture Quote #1

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters Picture Quote #1

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts Picture Quote #1

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement Picture Quote #1

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em Picture Quote #1

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don’t. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say Picture Quote #1

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority Picture Quote #1

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst Picture Quote #1

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright Picture Quote #1

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them Picture Quote #1

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb Picture Quote #1

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy Picture Quote #1

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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books Picture Quote #1

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories Picture Quote #1

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books Picture Quote #1

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art Picture Quote #1

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others Picture Quote #1

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art Picture Quote #1

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you Picture Quote #1

Morality’s not practical. Morality’s a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books Picture Quote #1

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn’t use, I would hire a professor and get some text books Picture Quote #1

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better Picture Quote #1

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you Picture Quote #1

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it Picture Quote #1

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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man’s magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed Picture Quote #1

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books Picture Quote #1

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? Picture Quote #1

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders Picture Quote #1

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men Picture Quote #1

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told Picture Quote #1

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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart (Books Quotes) The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters (Books Quotes) It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts (Books Quotes) A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement (Books Quotes) Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em (Books Quotes) I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don’t. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say (Books Quotes) I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority (Books Quotes) Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst (Books Quotes) What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright (Books Quotes) An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them (Books Quotes) I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb (Books Quotes) People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy (Books Quotes) There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books (Books Quotes) What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories (Books Quotes) Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books (Books Quotes) Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art (Books Quotes) Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others (Books Quotes) The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art (Books Quotes) In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you (Books Quotes) Morality’s not practical. Morality’s a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books (Books Quotes) If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn’t use, I would hire a professor and get some text books (Books Quotes) The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better (Books Quotes) Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you (Books Quotes) The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it (Books Quotes) In the dark colony of night, when I consider man’s magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed (Books Quotes) What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books (Books Quotes) Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? (Books Quotes) Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders (Books Quotes) Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men (Books Quotes) I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told (Books Quotes)

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