Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in a sea of time.
Barbara Tuchman
If the only benefit of a book was that it keeps you away from foolish daydreaming and prevents you from frivolity, it would certainly be considered to be a true friend who has given you a great favour.
An Arab Philosopher
Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
You can cover a great deal of country in book.
Andrew Lang
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks
Many books require no thought from those who read them and for a very simple reasons; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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 William Eliot
Books are like lobster shells we surround ourselves with them, and then we grow out of them and leave them behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Dorothy L. Sayers
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
George R.R. Martin
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John Green