personal development on Books

A common question I’m hearing from folks these days is whether it is beneficial (or a moral imperative) to pay attention to the news. The Catholic nun and social activist Dorothy Day asked the same qu...

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues, and tinges, and every cover is a door that turns on magic hinges.

The exiled Niccolo Machiavelli actually changed into his best clothes to enter into his nightly reading conversation with the ancients.

If you like quotes, might I suggest *entire books*.

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Researchers used data on 3,635 people over 50 participating in a larger health study who had answered questions about reading. The scientists divided the sample into three groups: those who read no b...

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.