501 Quotes by Book

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

You and I are not Muslim, because we are born in a Muslim family. You and I are not Muslim, because you read a book about Islam, or saw a Youtube video and decided to become Muslim. We are Muslim, because Allah chose us. Allah chose us.