Book Quotes

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.