Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. —Alfred Whitney Griswold More about this quote Tags: history ideas censorship quality books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: reading time books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: books collecting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: humor books television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. —Walter Bagehot More about this quote Tags: writing knowledge books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: books thinking culture bookstores Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: writing quality books morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: learning becoming knowledge books university Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. —Alfred Hitchcock More about this quote Tags: books use Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about. —Aurora Rose Reynolds in Until Trevor More about this quote Tags: love reading relationship books romance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: wonder beauty learning books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor writing books irony numbers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love everything that's old,—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. —Oliver Goldsmith More about this quote Tags: friends books wine old Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email