Intellectual Wealth Quotes

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.