Pat Conroy Quotes

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Reading brings us unknown friends

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Books, the children of the brain.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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

Read in order to live.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

Books are like my one and only joy.