Quotations on Book
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
-Theodore Parker
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
-Francis Bacon
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-Mark Twain
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
-Mortimer J. Adler
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
-Christopher Morley
Read the best books first.
-Henry David Thoreau
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
-Charles W. Eliot
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
-Gilbert Highet
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
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers,magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
-Jesse Lee Bennett
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
-Frank Zappa

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