501 Quotes by Book

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.