Book Quotes

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

A book is a garden carried in the pocket.

For most people, the Bible is a non-problematic book. What people don't realize is that they're reading translations of texts, and we don't have the originals.

I did my book to help other people, ... People are always struggling and they need help and something to give them courage, so that's why I did it.

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Your love to me was like an unread book.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.