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Book Quotes - II

Book Quotes - II

1. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? - Dale Carnegie

2. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. - Harrison Ford

3. 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' - Lewis Carroll.

4. I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude. - Christopher Columbus

5. The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. - R. Buckminster Fuller

6. If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is! - Richard P. Feynman

7. O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself. - Erno Rubik

9. The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

10. I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. - Nicolaus Copernicus

11. Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. - John Ruskin

12. What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! - Charles Darwin

13. The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. - Jeff Bezos

14. In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. - Bill Gates

15. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway

16. Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

17. Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. - Victor Hugo

18. He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. - Benjamin Franklin

19. It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

20. Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.