Louis L'Amour Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

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

A world in chaos is not a world in which books are copied and libraries maintained.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions , teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

A library implies an act of faith.

The people will perish if their scholars pass away.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.

If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.