The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Books Quotes
The book you don’t read can’t help.
Books allowed my imagination to take flight – and it hasn’t landed yet.
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
The two biggest sellers in any book store are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.
But your own books belong to you; you treat them with the affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality. Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages […]
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
