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Books Quotes - IV

Books Quotes - IV

1. I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution. - James D. Watson

2. The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E. M. Forster

3. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

4. Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. - William Butler Yeats

5. We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. - Mahatma Gandhi

6. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. - Abraham Lincoln

7. One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. - D. H. Lawrence

8. The multitude of books is making us ignorant. - Voltaire

9. Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. - Ezra Pound

10. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. You know, I don't only play for the record books. - Roger Federer

12. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

13. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

14. I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' - Bill Gates

15. 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.

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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.