Literary Legacy Impact

Table of Contents

• The Timelessness and Importance of Books
• Books as Tools for Knowledge and Wisdom
• Books and Personal Transformation
• Books and Identity
• Books and Societal Impact
• Books and Creativity
• Critiques on Modern Literature
• Books Versus Other Forms of Media
• Books and Personal Preferences
• Other

The Timelessness and Importance of Books

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoonthat is better than a spoon

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

The book is man's best invention so far.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it’s the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

Books as Tools for Knowledge and Wisdom

Even a book that is made up of only untruths can greatly improve us intellectually.

Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.

More wisdom can be transmitted through a novel than a textbook.

A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.

A wide gap separates a reader who simply consumes books from a reader who diligently seeks wisdom.

Books and Personal Transformation

Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,” he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”“I’m not sure a book has ever changed me,” said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep—”“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,” said Tessa

He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.

Books are sacred wisdom.

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.

Books and Identity

Books are big enough and powerful enough to define and contain identity.--Aaron Lansky

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

You are greater than any book; for the Infinite Wisdom of Creator lives within YOU.

Perhaps the book belongs to the world.” Lan sat up on his knees again. “It sounds very important. A book of universal knowledge? Wisdom to be preserved and shared?

Books and Societal Impact

... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it’s the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

What’s important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

Books and Creativity

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

Critiques on Modern Literature

Books used to be written by humanity's greatest thinkers, or at least our greatest entertainers. Now every halfwit can publish his verbal diarrhea. And millions of shitty, mediocre, uninspired, trite books are drowning out mankind's greatest literary accomplishments.

The success of a book, far from elevating its author, belittled him, transforming him into merchandise.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

Books Versus Other Forms of Media

Songs are more powerful than books.

George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Books and Personal Preferences

BIG books are better.  There, I said it and it's true.

Books were so much easier to relate to than people.

He said books were more interesting than people.

Other

Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him.

Wise men, fools and lovers,'" Philippe said. "What book contains all three?""Almost any book.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.

The intrinsic value of a book does not depend on the importance of its subject (else the theologians would prevail, and mightily), but on the manner of approaching the accidental and the insignificant, of mastering the infinitesimal. The essential has never required the least talent.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

The size of a book never matter as the size of wisdom in the book

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

How do you know that you know?How do you know that this books are really made by Einstein and also are saved as how they are made, I mean the text which is written by Einstein is the same as now you see it.

Books, intellect, facts - all these are mere dust in front of love.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” ― George Orwell, 1984.

My Latin teacher would say, “We must be grateful that we don’t know what the great books were that perished in Alexandria, because if we knew what they were, we’d be inconsolable.

...the Party member's books represented ammunition in the class struggle rather than any desire for knowledge for its own sake.

We have already quoted Basil Willey on the difficulty—and the importance—of discovering the hidden and unstated assumptions of an author, to say nothing of our own. This goes for any book. It applies to works in philosophy with particular force. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 280]

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

... books are men of higher stature ...

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Raney ... Describes more people I know than any book I've read.

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You"

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

It's a hugely important case, in part because it relates to the world's best-selling book, but also because of the principle of law involved.

I haven't read one book aboutA book or memorized one plot,Or found a mind I did not doubt,I learned one date. And then forgot.And one by one the solid scholarsGet the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot, Or found a mind I did not doubt, I learned one date. And then forgot. And one by one the solid scholars Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.

Who was it who said, “I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul’s reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?” Whoever it was, I agree with him.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

Molotov explained how that book, should one be foolish enough to open it, gave the power to read things and creatures out of any book in the world.

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them.

His books are exciting and powerful and – if I may filch the word from the booksy ones – pulsing.

But when I open them up, I find that they’re equal! And they both have achieved the same destiny: my zinc gurney. Why, then, did he tire himself out poring over so many books? Boh! Take my advice, journalist: eat, drink, and enjoy yourself –.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called “Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You”

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell, 1984.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn’t elevate a cow.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer’s strongest books.

Russell’s books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them.

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can’t think for themselves – But when one has made up one’s opinions, there is no use in reading.

It is only by maintaining a reasonable distance from the book that we may be able to appreciate its true meaning.

Evidently, I’d suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book”.

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