Books Quotes

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

~ Mark Twain

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

~ Peter S. Jennison

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

~ Robert Maynard Hutchins

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

~ Vera Nazarian

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

~ Besa Kosova

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

~ Karl Marx

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

~ Malcolm X

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.

~ Keith Richards

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

~ E.m. Forster

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses? They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

~ Helen Keller

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

~ Ian Mcewan

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

~ A.w. Tozer

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

~ Tommy Lee

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

~ Rodney Ulyate

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

~ Eric Burns

Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.

~ Sin Mils

You can only learn to read by reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How could you renew your mind, if you never read?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I always returned from my travels with new books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

~ David Denby

The joy of reading is grace of renewal of mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To read is to renew thy mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish to renew your mind, read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I had a renewal of mind, when I begin to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.

~ James A. Michener

The world of books is the only paradise there is.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

~ Suzy Davies

It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.

~ Suzy Kassem

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

~ Piero Scaruffi

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.

~ Aqeel Rafique

It is possible to find the passion to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom comes from focus, focus brings freedom. Focus on fear you will always be in prison, focus on faith and is nothing the world can keep you knocked down.

~ Patience Johnson

Dear Lord please show me what really matters so that I may be able to determine what is distraction and God's direction in my life.

~ Patience Johnson

If God can help us locate demands, He can also help us locate the leaks.

~ Patience Johnson

Long before something happens in our life, it happened in our heart.

~ Patience Johnson