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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. -- William Shenstone
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. -- Chanakya
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. -- Albert Camus
There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days. -- Charles Spurgeon
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic. -- Philippe Petit
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are. -- Sugata Mitra
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. -- Asa Gray
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. -- Steve Wozniak
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply. -- Ronald Frame
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Lover of books, lover of knowledge. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnson
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books -- Albert Pike
Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured. -- Terry Goodkind
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves. -- William Gilbert
Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me. -- Henry Rollins
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge. -- Matisyahu
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. -- Haruki Murakami
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. -- John Milton
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. -- Julian Barnes
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind. -- Toni Morrison
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. -- George Washington
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible. -- Amit Kalantri
Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom -- Robert S. Jepson, Jr.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. -- George Henry Lewes
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. -- William Hazlitt
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism. -- Malala Yousafzai
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. -- Irina Bokova
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. -- H. L. Mencken
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. -- Thomas Carlyle
Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. -- Esther Meynell
That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. -- Robert Burton
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. -- Bill Vaughan
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... -- Ray Bradbury
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties. -- Eliza Acton
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. -- Nita Leland
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. -- Elizabeth McCracken
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. -- Charles Caleb Colton
If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books. -- Narendra Modi
Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message -- Kenneth E. Boulding
You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge. -- Amit Kalantri
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books? -- J. Arthur Thomson
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life. -- Wilferd Peterson
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it. -- Swami Vivekananda
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him. -- Paracelsus
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about -- Piero Scaruffi
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. -- Jane Austen
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them. -- Megan Fox
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. -- Sivananda

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