Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace , Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Great short quote and quotation by: Hermann Hesse , Swiss (German-born) author (1877 – 1962)
You can cover a great deal of country in books. Great short quote and quotation by: Andrew Lang , Scottish author & scholar (1844 – 1912)
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
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You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. Great short quote and quotation […]
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Great short quote and quotation by: Saint Bernard, Epistle , French abbot & saint (1090 – 1153)
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