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Books Quotes - II

Books Quotes - II

1. Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? - Albert Einstein

2. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - Walt Disney

3. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes

4. To read too many books is harmful. - Mao Zedong

5. I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. - Oliver Goldsmith

6. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes

7. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare

8. Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? - Albert Einstein

9. I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all. - Virat Kohli

10. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. - Jane Austen

12. I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

13. Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey

14. We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. - Lyndon B. Johnson

15. A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. - Alfred Nobel.

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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.