Ernest Hemingway Quotes, War Quotes, Book Quotes

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , War Quotes , Book Quotes

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Book Quotes , Mean Quotes

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Book Quotes , Trying Quotes

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Book Quotes , Beer Quotes

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading--all at the same time.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Cheuse Quotes , Girl Quotes , Book Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Bible Quotes , Book Quotes

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Book Quotes

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Memories Quotes , Book Quotes

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Book Quotes , Heart Quotes

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Blood Quotes

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Two Quotes

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Children Quotes , Book Quotes

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

5 years ago

Message Copied

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