(1021 quotes found)
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.”
William Osler
“Literature is my utopia”
Helen Keller
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others”
Virginia Woolf
“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
T.S. Eliot
“I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.”
Jim Morrison
“The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself”
Samuel Butler
“A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.”
Edith Hamilton
