Best Literary Value And Ownership Quotes
Literary Value And Ownership
Table of Contents
- Book Ownership and Collection
- Books as Companions
- Reading and Understanding
- Books as Gifts and Sharing
- Books and Identity
- Value of Unread Books
- Books versus Other Mediums
- Books as Sources of Wisdom
- Love and Passion for Books
- Other
Book Ownership and Collection
Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
Nash knows what it means to give your favorite books- it's like handing over a piece of yourself and asking the person to understand it, maybe even treasure it.
He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have you read all of these?' A true book lover knows that, no, he hasn't read them all. It's about the process, it's about when the right reference comes up, you have the right book to go to; it's about never being without something to occupy your eyes and mind.
[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would.
A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world.
A student fits all of his books into his suitcase. A master fits all of his books into his mind.
No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but of eagerness, anticipation.
I have a bad memory and too many books,” distributed among four homes, “so I waste lots of time walking around searching” for a specific book. This has its upside: he’s often surprised by books he’d forgotten.
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.
St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.
Books as Companions
According to him, it was not a question of liking or not liking to read, but of finding the book that was meant for you. Everybody could love reading, as long as they had the right book in their hands, a book that spoke to them, a book they could not bear to part with.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading
A person should read a book because it speaks to something in his heart.
I like the fact that he randomly asks me about books I’m reading. It means three things: that he is different from everyone I’ve ever known, that he thinks I’m worth having a discussion with, and, more importantly, that he notices.
Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.
That individual who reads useful books is no longer on the same plane of thinking as those who neglected them.
Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.
Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of information, who are more to him, possibly, than any person he sees. He continually returns to the cherished companion and feeds eagerly upon his thought. It is because there is something in the book which he needs, which awakens and directs trains of thought that lead him where he likes to be led.
As far as I can see, a man who’s fond of books never need starve!
He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.
Reading and Understanding
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
A man who has mastered all the books in the world may still be ignorant if he fails to connect this bookish knowledge with the real world.
He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you’d understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
But the images of men’s wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
You can’t expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.
Books as Gifts and Sharing
Nash knows what it means to give your favorite books- it's like handing over a piece of yourself and asking the person to understand it, maybe even treasure it.
A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.
My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion
But he ran a bookstore, managed it, was well read, which we cared about then, whether someone had read the same books we had, and which I try to, have to, care less about now.
He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,
Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.
He carries books everywhere he goes so he won’t have to be bored by people.
I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.
My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read.“Abraham Linclion.
Books and Identity
You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he treasures.
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
I found that with one hundred and fifty well- chosen books, a man possesses a complete summary of all human knowledge, or at least all that a man need really know.
St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.
He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure.
Perhaps the book will act like some sort of beacon and draw whatever or whoever it is he’s looking for to him. He believes in books, he thinks as he leaves the room. That much he knows for sure.
This was what he had once upon a time expected and hoped of all books that he opened, that each be the one book he required, his own book. For.
Value of Unread Books
I have a bad memory and too many books,” distributed among four homes, “so I waste lots of time walking around searching” for a specific book. This has its upside: he’s often surprised by books he’d forgotten.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.
St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.
Books versus Other Mediums
Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life.
I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing...
No, he may not read books, but he did devour audiobooks.
Books as Sources of Wisdom
A college president I know keeps three books on his night table: the Bible, the Iliad, and Louis Auchincloss' 1964 novel The Rector of Justin. When I once asked him, "Why the novel?," he responded, "Because it raises questions I cannot answer or ignore, the sort of questions that possess a wisdom apart from answers.
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction,-that one can put the books down at anytime.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
When a literary person’s exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
Love and Passion for Books
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.
Other
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.
It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself
He waves his hands over the books, proud as a new father. The image sticks in my mind, and I wonder if this is a man who sees books for what they are. Who understands that if there is magic on this earth, it is in these small bound pages.
...he has never read a single page of any of my books.Once, when I told him I'd love to know what he thinks of them, he demurred."I couldn't possibly say," he said. "If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.
A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.
He does manage the bookstore, which is currently my favorite place on earth." Her eyes glazed over. "All those books. If I married him, I could probably work there the rest of my life. Nothing would make me happier.""What about love?" Ve asked."Oh," Harper said solemnly. "I love books.
If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead to unhappiness.
Books were heavy shit. Next time he offered to move someone, he'd make sure the person was less of an intellectual.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?
Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day.
Sometimes this habit of using an entire book to tackle a single issue seems positively reckless. When the captain of your little pleasure cruiser spots a ferry hull looming over the horizon, do you really want him to reach for a copy of How to Avoid Huge Ships? Or would you rather that he kept his attention on the wheel?
But an exceptionally clever student could take a book out-side, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.
He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning.
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.
I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
Now’s your chance, Lily. Remember to ask him about himself. They love that. And for God’s sake don’t talk about books.
But books meant so much for him he forgot that they were a bewilderment to others.
More Collections
Friendship Quotes Hub
Sports Team Confidence & Success Quotes
Persistence and Progress
Best Limited Social Circles Quotes
Best Life Quotes
Best Intense Rivalry Games Quotes
Related Articles
Patrick Wright
Software engineer and creator of Quotesperation. I curate wisdom from history's greatest minds to inspire and guide modern life. When I'm not collecting quotes, I'm writing about technology and finding connections between timeless wisdom and today's challenges.