(2771 quotes found)
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude”
Voltaire
“Study from new books but from old teachers”
Turkish Proverb
“Only your friends steal your books”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it”
Mark Twain
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
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