Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Books are the training weights of the mind.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Stoic Philosophy Quotes

2. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Reading Quotes

3. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

4. “One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.”

— Abdul Kalam

5. “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

6. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Creativity Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

7. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

— Roald Dahl

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8. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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9. “Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Healing Quotes, Reading Quotes

10. “A multitude of books distracts the mind.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Reading Quotes

11. “Books don’t change people; paragraphs do. Sometimes even sentences.”

— John Piper

12. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading

13. “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

— George Eliot

Also featured in: Judging Quotes

14. “Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.”

— Stephen King

15. “If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

16. “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

— Isaac Asimov

Also featured in: Reading Quotes

17. “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”

— Hermann Hesse

Also featured in: Quotes About Humanity

18. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Short Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Reading Quotes

19. “I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.”

— Albert Einstein

20. “Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Impact Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

21. “Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”

— Franz Kafka

22. “I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.”

— J.D. Salinger

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Coffee Quotes

23. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Joy Quotes

24. “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Reading Quotes

25. “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Silly Quotes, Reading Quotes

26. “A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.”

— Franz Kafka

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes

27. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Deep Quotes

28. “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

29. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Creativity Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Cute Quotes, Joy Quotes

30. “Libraries are our friends.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Reading Quotes

31. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”

— Melody Beattie

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

32. “I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Reading Quotes

33. “The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Universe Quotes, Principles And Laws

34. “Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.”

— Marianne Williamson

35. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Past Quotes, Reading Quotes

36. “If book knowledge made great investors, then the librarians would all be rich.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Famous Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Witty Quotes

37. “If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Desire Quotes, Soul Quotes

38. “Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.”

— Nikola Tesla

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Reading Quotes, Library Quotes

39. “Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.”

— Bruce Lee

40. “The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.”

— Anonymous

41. “Nothing will train you better as a writer than working on your next book.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Practice Quotes

42. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes, Travel Quotes

43. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

— William Feather

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes, School Quotes, Library Quotes

44. “Books are dead men talking.”

— George R.R. Martin

45. “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

— Rudyard Kipling

46. “Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!”

— Thomas Carlyle

47. “A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”

— Thomas Jefferson

48. “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Different Quotes

49. “My alma mater was books, a good library.”

— Malcolm X

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Lifelong Learning Quotes

50. “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway