Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

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

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.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

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

Reading brings us unknown friends

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

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 art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Read in order to live.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.