There is more wisdom in the Bible than there is in all the other literature of the ages. The one who studies the Bible will know more of real wisdom than the man who reads every other book and neglects his Bible.
—R. A. Torrey
The evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
To stop reading books means to stop thinking.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beware of the person of one book
—Thomas Aquinas
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
—Oscar Wilde
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
—Nikolai Gogol
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
—Voltaire
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
If humanity was able to learn by direct observation of children, I could have spared myself the trouble to write this book.
—Sigmund Freud
I am now reading the book of martyrs. They make me blush to think how little I suffer for CHRIST’s sake.
—George Whitefield
Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.
—John Locke
Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.
—John Locke