Book Knowledge Quotes

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

And now when our maimed soldiers have returned from the Civil War and apply for Federal office, the duties of which they are perfectly competent to discharge, they will be rejected to give places to those who were cramming themselves with facts and principles from the books, while they were bleeding for their country, because they do not know the fluctuations of the tide at the Cape of Good Hope, how near the moon ever approaches the earth, or the names of the principal rivers emptying into the Caspian Sea.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

While most of the world's information is beginning to be stored electronically, most of the world's expertise still resides in books.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.

I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.