The Love of Learning, the Sequestered Nooks, and All the Sweet Serenity of Books

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ~Dr. Seuss

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ~Allan Bloom

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. ~Walt Disney

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ~Voltaire

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. ~Henry David Thoreau

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. ~Elvis Presley

1 It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ~ James A. Baldwin

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ~Victor Hugo

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. ~Jackie Kennedy

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ~Rene Descartes

A home without books is a body without soul. ~Marcus Tillius Cicero

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~B. F. Skinner

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ~Herman Hesse

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ~Louisa May Alcott

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ~E. M. Forster

Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ~Henry Ward Beecher

2 Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. ~Ramakrishna

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ~Lord Chesterfield

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

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. ~Nicholas Sparks

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. ~Mortimer Adler

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. ~Laura Bush

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. ~Laura Bush

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. ~Pablo Neruda

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books. ~Norman MacCaig

3 The end of reading is not more books, but more LIFE. ~Holbrook Jackson

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. ~Madeleine L'Engle

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ~John Locke

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. ~John Locke

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all." ~Henry David Thoreau

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." ~Mark Twain

"The books that help you the most are those that make you think the most." ~Theodore Parker

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” ~Barbara Tuchman

"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. " ~Author Unknown 4

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. " ~James Russell Lowell

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~Ezra Pound

Literature is the question minus the answer. ~Roland Barthes

Literature is news that stays news. ~Ezra Pound

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ~E.M. Forster

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. ~Richard Livingstone

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~Samual McChord Crothers

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. ~A C Grayling

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries. ~Descartes

5 I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance. ~Lyndon Baines Johnson

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere! ~Mary Schmich

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