Book Quotes That Hit Home!

Here are some of my favorite quotes on/of books, hope you enjoy them as much as i do.


"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with gemonopinion. but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things." -- Plato


"The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think." -- Kierkegaard


"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." -- Samuel Johnson, lexicographer


"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom." -- Jean -Paul Sarte


"It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one." -- Balzac



"I don't like to gemit myself about heaven and hell-you see, i have friends in both place." -- Mark Twain

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." -- Barbara Tuchman

"True influence over another gees not from a moment's eloquence nor from any happily chose word, but from the accumulation of a lifetimes's thoughts stored up in the eyes." -- Thornton Wilder

"Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx

"Im all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Lets start with typewriters." -- Frank Lloyed Write

"We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And teh human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering; these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain libe but poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for." -- From Dead Poets Society

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." --Francis Bacon

"I Cannot live without book." -- Thomas Jefferson

"All books will begee light in proportion as you find light in them." -- Mortimer J. Adler

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