Charles Kingsley Quotes

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

Books do furnish a room.

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

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books, the children of the brain.

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

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

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

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

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

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

Books have always been an important part of my life.