If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
- Haile Selassie
Women are books, and men the readers be.
- Benjamin Franklin
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
- Jose Rizal
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
- Antonio Gaudi
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
- David Bowie
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
- Omar Khayyam
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.
- Kwame Nkrumah
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- Rene Descartes
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
- Alan Turing
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
- Abdul Kalam
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
- Ravi Zacharias
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
- Immanuel Kant
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
- Rudyard Kipling
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S
- Zakir Naik
Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there's more to your book of life than the page you're stuck on. Stop being afraid to move on. Close this chapter of hurt, and never re-read it. It's time to get what your life deserves, and move on from the things that don't deserve you. Don't try to fix what's been broken in your past, let your future create something better.
- Trent Shelton
Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?
- Malala Yousafzai
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
- Humphrey Bogart
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.
- Paul Cezanne
Everything comes from the great book of nature.
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
- Dean Martin
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
- Saadi
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
- Ice Cube
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
- David Attenborough
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.
- George Washington Carver
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
- Al-Shafi‘i
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.
- Arthur W. Pink
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines
- John Mulaney
You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
- Al Pacino
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.
- Ibn Arabi
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
- Jackie Kennedy
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
- Franz Kafka
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
- Lemmy Kilmister
The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
- Michael Faraday
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
- William Osler
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
- Charles Spurgeon
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
- Maimonides
O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.
- Al-Ghazali
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
- B. F. Skinner
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
- Wole Soyinka
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
- Dr. Seuss
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
- Jamie Lee Curtis
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
- Joseph McCarthy
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
- Sandra Cisneros
