Textbooks Quotes

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

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.

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

International law only exists in textbooks on international law.

What a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

Textbooks must be constant over many years for students to trust the system. But if we say something is true today and deny it tomorrow, students will lose faith in us. Consistency is at a premium.

Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks.

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.