"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."

Books, Creation, Humanity, Achievement

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"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."

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

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Books, Dignity, Fire, Night

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Books, Poison, Knowledge, Power

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Books, Metaphysics

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Books, Leisure, Knowledge, Life

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Books, End, Nothing, Study

"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Books, Reading, Life, Perception

"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Books, Reading, Change, Adaptation, Curiosity

"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Books, Hope, Despair, Imagination

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Books,

"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Books, Knowledge, Discovery, Curiosity

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"All great peoples are conservative."

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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

Difference, Unconscious

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

Silence, Speech

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

Ego, Egotism, Faults

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

Heart,

"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

Perspective, Rest

"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."

Man, Men, Nation, Reform

"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

Wisdom, Ignorance

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

Thought, Deed

"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."

Man, Men, Nothing, Talk