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Words of Wisdom on Books

In developing our seminars and keynote presentations, we are fortunate to run across many words of wisdom.

If you need a refreshing thought, idea, slogan, or profound nugget for an upcoming meeting, presentation, or lunch room bulletin board, take a look at the following words of wisdom on books.

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Random Thoughts on Books

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
~ Franz Kafka

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
~ Jerry Seinfeld

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
~ Mark Twain

A house without books is like a room without windows.
~ Heinrich Mann

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
~ Author Unknown

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
~ Caroline Gordon

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
~ Mark Twain

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
~ Jan Morris

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
~ Mark Twain

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
~ Edwin Whipple

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~ Charles W. Eliot

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."
~ Helen Exley

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
~ William Feather

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
~ William Lyon Phelps

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.
~ Wendell Ford

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
~ Toni Morrison

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
~ Oscar Wilde

It took people 10 years to figure out that while stuck in a morning commute, they could be listening to a book.
~ Paul Hilts

Master book, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
~ Owen Meredith

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
~ Thomas Helm

Never judge a book by its movie.
~ J.W. Eagan

The age of the book is about gone.
~ George Steiner

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
~ Theodore Parker

The book you don't read can't help.
~ Jim Rohn

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
~ Carl Thomas Rowan

The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page.
~ Anonymous

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
~ Andrew Ross

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
~ John Wooden

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
~ James Bryce

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
~ Elbert Hubbard

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
~ Kenko Yoshida

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
~ Author Unknown

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
~ Paul Sweeney

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