Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Book Quotes

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Book Quotes

A home without books is a body without soul.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Book Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Hero Quotes , Book Quotes

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Bible Quotes , Book Quotes

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Love Quotes , Book Quotes

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Division Quotes

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Book Quotes , Heart Quotes

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. Edward Newton Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Hands Quotes

You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole world. For the whole world is one; you are rated a very insignificant part of it, and therefore it is right for you that you should serve your millions of brothers rather than aggrandise this little self

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Brother Quotes , Book Quotes

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Davies Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , War Quotes , Book Quotes

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Religious Quotes , Book Quotes

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes