From Books Quotes

#1. I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

Lisa Tuttle

#2. You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

Matthew Kelly

#3. Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

James Fenimore Cooper

#4. To write poems, I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

A.S. Byatt

#6. I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Carolina Herrera

#7. For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.

Mortimer J. Adler

#8. I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing ... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

Tupac Shakur

#9. There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

Michael Winter

#10. From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well ...

Michel De Montaigne

#11. There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Will Rogers

#12. I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

Michelle Paver

#13. I learn more from books than from people

William Sleator

#14. What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Nicolas Chamfort

#15. The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Booker T. Washington

#16. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone

Horace

#17. Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Nicolas Chamfort

#18. Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Neil Gaiman

#19. The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom

Samuel Smiles

#20. I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

G. E. M. Skues

#21. I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Jessica Simpson

#22. Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#23. Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

Robert Bolt

#24. When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#25. [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

August Strindberg

#26. Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.

Janet Evanovich

#27. We live in an age of progress," announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. "It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?" "Some

L. Frank Baum

#28. We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Mark Twain

#29. Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Alan Turing

#30. There is a large gap between being an activist out of the idealism that comes from books, conversations, the fire of youth and being one because you have lived through the depredations that life has thrown at you.

Neel Mukherjee

#31. I won't lie!
Probably from books you have saw that I'm not good at English, probably because I don't live in such country which this language is important or let's say to be native. But as for now I can't do a lot of for that!

Deyth Banger

#32. Do I get bored from books or films?
No, I don't get I get bored from genre so I change it and start something new...

Deyth Banger

#33. Hope and perseverance - that's what I learned from books.

Tiffany Reisz

#34. I learned about sex the hard way ... from books.

Emo Philips

#35. Maybe my knowledge is from books, films and all around me.

Deyth Banger

#36. People don't learn about their sexuality from books or discussions; they learn mostly from personal experience in bed with themselves or someone else.

Darrel Ray

#37. The mystic possesses his or her knowledge of God not from books or academic study, but from experience, from the experience of being loved intimately, intensely, by God.

William Harmless

#38. I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carole Bouquet

#39. For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Robert M. Hutchins

#40. Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

Robert Greene

#41. Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.
Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

Peter Hoeg

#42. Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.

Robin Sacredfire

#43. We cannot learn men from books.

Benjamin Disraeli

#44. Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Jessica Zafra

#45. The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

Ikue Mori

#46. Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know - mainly because I learned it from books - that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth

Karen Swallow Prior

#47. I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Beatrice Sparks

#48. God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

August Strindberg

#49. Films are always different from books.

William Kircher

#50. The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.

Anatoly Rybakov

#51. All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln

#52. My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

Joseph Bruchac

#53. Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master.

Sri Chinmoy

#54. A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

Audrey Tautou

#55. Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

Pai Kit Fai

#56. Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

Fulton J. Sheen

#57. You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

Khaled Hosseini

#58. In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

Jennifer Lawrence

#59. I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

Rachel Nichols

#60. Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Laurie Colwin

#61. I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for - more than I could learn from books alone.

Dean Koontz

#62. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

Johannes Itten

#63. The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Andy Warhol

#64. One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Marcus Samuelsson

#65. Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

Giles Andreae

#66. Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

Lisa Lucas

#67. The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

William Matthews

#68. If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructores but form the very life experience itself.

Haile Selassie

#69. The love I knew was from books..

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#70. Of course. You get everything from books.

Gregory Maguire

#71. These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

Anton Chekhov

#72. If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#73. Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

Richard Peck

#74. There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.

Raymond Pettibon

#75. In no way can what the pupil learns, whether from books or industrial training, or from contact with forces and representatives of civilization, be more firmly fixed than by religious training.

Thomas Lawrence Riggs

#76. If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#77. Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Maria Edgeworth

#78. I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

William Harvey

#79. You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

Ravi Zacharias

#80. It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Victor Hugo

#81. The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

B.F. Skinner

#82. I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

William Faulkner

#83. An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#84. Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#85. Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Shelby Foote

#86. The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

William James

#87. One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Frank Herbert

#88. ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Marcel Proust

#89. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

#90. Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books.

Paulo Coelho

#91. Religion doesn't mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#92. Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Matisyahu

#93. Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].

Brian Evenson

#94. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

Karen Russell

#95. In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Mark Twain

#96. Things to know from books to read

Kip Koehler

#97. This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.

Walt Whitman

#98. I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Salman Rushdie

#99. The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Paracelsus

#100. Books were my friends," said Catherine, and cooled her cheek, which was red from the heat of cooking, on her wineglass. "I think I learned all my feelings from books. In them I loved and laughed and found out more than in my whole nonreading life.

Nina George