Petrarch Quotes

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

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

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

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

A library implies an act of faith.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

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

Reading is important.