Quotes about books

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last 90 days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

Jim Rohn

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

Carl Sagan

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Henry Ward Beecher

Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

Will Smith

Beware the man of the single book.

Bertrand Russell

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

William E. Vaughan

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Confucius

Beware of the person of one book.

Thomas Aquinas

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

Winston Churchill