Book Quotes: Literary Pearls of Wisdom (Page 8)

"The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me"

Anatole France, Novelist

"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull"

Anatole France, Novelist

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out"

Jay London, Comedian

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"The real war will never get in the books"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me"

Michael Caine, Actor

"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it"

William Golding, Novelist

"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life"

Camille Paglia, Author

"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Books have led some to learning and others to madness"

Petrarch, Poet

"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it"

Philip Roth, Novelist

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content"

Paul Valery, Poet

"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about"

Britney Spears, Musician

"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"Books are a finer world within the world"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"An art book is a museum without walls"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect"

John Dyer, Artist

"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

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