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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.: Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.: Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.: Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.: Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.: Neil Postman
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

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