Browsing Topic Best Book Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Life has many chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean it’s the end of the book.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

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

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

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

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage to learn. Educators can, however, make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply.

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

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

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

You can predict a person’s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

I hope we don’t tear down the patriarchy before my book comes out because my book won’t be relevant.

Racism is a very confusing word these days. But when I say that White Fragility is a racist book, what I mean is it does not allow Black people to be full human beings, because full human beings deal with the imperfections of life.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

When in doubt tell the truth.