501 Quotes by Book

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.