Books Quotes
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Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell.
Epictetus
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But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.
Clark Gregg
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E-books are impervious to analogy.
Scott Adams
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Adhering to the flow concept mandates the abolishment of local efficiencies. Ohno addressed this issue again and again in his books, stressing that there is no point in encouraging people to produce if the products are not needed in the very short-term. This emphasis is probably the reason that outside Toyota TPS first became known as Just-in-time production.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
George Payne Rainsford James
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Law dies, books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
Aldus Manutius
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens
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I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.
Michael Emerson
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Abraham Lincoln
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Laurie Anderson
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Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks
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Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. I acquired my view of life, my political line from life itself, and in uninterrupted study from books.
Alexandra Kollontai
