Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Erasmus’s Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

A Book Of Words: Selections From Speeches And Addresses Delivered Between 1906 And 1927

I had a dream about you. You were writing a book on how to write a book, and I was reading a book on how to read a book. You thought we were meant to be together, and I thought we were meant to be in a library.


I had a dream about you 2

Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

I think serious readers of books are 5% of the population. If there are good TV shows or a World Cup or anything, that 5% will keep on reading books very seriously, enthusiastically. And if a society banned books, they would go into the forest and re...

Haruki Murakami

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a...

Franz Wright

The world is the book of women.

French

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

An Echo in the Bone

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Books Burn Badly

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

The Book Thief

She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life." The Book Thief

The Book Thief

Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I won't read a book whose pages have been dog-eared, because I'm more of a cat person.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I enjoy reading books by way of subtitles from the movies they got made into.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

One of my hobbies is reading finance and economic books—at the strip club, where I “invest” my money.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

The Waste Books

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

The Weeping Books Of Blinney Lane