Christopher Paolini Quotes

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

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

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Read good, big important things.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

Books are the curse of the human race.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Love of books is the best of all.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

Reading brings us unknown friends