Written Wisdom Quotes

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

Books are embalmed minds.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

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

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.