Quotes About Knowledge From Books

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

Matisyahu

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

Pai Kit Fai

#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. Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Ramakrishna

#5. The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

Francis Bacon

#6. I breathed in deeply, feeling immediately at ease. I loved the smell of books. I kept breathing in until I felt too light, like I was inhaling all the knowledge from the books and there was no place for the information to go.

Megan Miranda

#7. 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

#8. Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

Edward Hirsch

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

Deyth Banger

#10. 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

#11. The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

H.L. Mencken

#12. The soft throb and glow roused in my breast by the gilt letters of four or five different languages winking at me from scores of handsomely tooled bindings - the sight of so much knowledge so beautifully presented - swiftly flamed out.

Ross King

#13. Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be ... smelly.

Rupert Giles

#14. When you steal a book, you steal from the world. the Library propaganda said

Rachel Caine

#15. Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Jane Austen

#16. 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

#17. I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#18. Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

Debasish Mridha

#19. There so much to learn from a single book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.

Paula Gruben

#22. Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. Bristling with half-baked knowledge from the books we had read.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#25. Plato was suspicious of writing which seems to remove knowledge from the present moment of the individual and lodge it elsewhere, in books, which are inert and cannot defend themselves against fools.

Iris Murdoch

#26. Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.

Chandan Sharma

#27. 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

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

Gregory Maguire

#29. Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

Henry MacKenzie

#30. Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Russell T. Davies