Aldous Huxley Quotes

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A library implies an act of faith.

May books spread the world over!

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

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

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

I love to read and learn.

If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

I was a librarian in a city school.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.