Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
—Cicero
That when you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
—Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.
—Thomas Jefferson
When I read a good book I wish that life were 3000 years long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
—Oscar Wilde
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
—Mark Twain
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
—Seneca
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
—Seneca
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
—Henry David Thoreau
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
—Oscar Wilde
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
—Plato
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries
—René Descartes
After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
—Charlie Chaplin
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
—Charlie Chaplin
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
—Henry David Thoreau
Some of us are like Peter, Silver and gold have I none. But we have other things: for example, books. Am I sharing my books and what I read in them? Am I sharing every joy I can?
—Amy Carmichael
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
—Mark Twain
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
—Mark Twain
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
—Cicero
They are most to be feared who become very rich in book learning but remain unlearned as Christians.
—Herman Bavinck
If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on… then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.
—Immanuel Kant
Why should you be enemies to your own peace? To read over the evidences of God’s love to your souls as a man does a book that he intends to refute? Why do you study to find evasions, to turn off these comforts that are due to you?
—John Flavel
The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in a whole book. Yet there are some who would tell us that the Bible is no more God’s book than other books. Either they have not read the Bible, or they have read it with their eyes closed.
—R. A. Torrey
The soul’s proper food is found in one book, the Bible.
—R. A. Torrey
I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.
“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”
—R. A. Torrey
It is important to know the mind of man. It is absolutely essential to know the mind of God. The place to discover the mind of God is the Bible. This is the Book in which God reveals His mind
—R. A. Torrey