Top 500 Book Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

— Oscar Wilde

352. “I’m always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.”

— Ernest Hemingway

353. “The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”

— Roald Dahl

354. “Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.”

— Nelson Mandela

355. “In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year’s change in intrinsic value.”

— Warren Buffett

356. “The world is a better place when you smile.”

— Nicholas Sparks

357. “The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.”

— Pope Francis

358. “In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”

— Ernest Hemingway

359. “Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”

— George Washington Carver

360. “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

— Neil Gaiman

361. “Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.”

— C.G. Jung

362. “BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You’re not a human being until you’re in my phone book.”

— Bill Hicks

363. “Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.”

— Swami Vivekananda

364. “I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”

— Franz Kafka

365. “The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.”

— Watchman Nee

366. “Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That’s what enlightenment is all about.”

— Robin S. Sharma

367. “Women are books, and men the readers be...”

— Benjamin Franklin

368. “Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.”

— Stephen King

369. “Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

370. “In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”

— Ray Bradbury

371. “Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”

— Carl Sagan

372. “Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

373. “My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I’m quite prone to such bouts of deplorability – take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”

— Brandon Sanderson

374. “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”

— Christopher Paolini

375. “What better book can there be than the book of humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

376. “May books and nature be their early joy!”

— William Wordsworth

377. “She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she’d checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

— Nicholas Sparks

378. “Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.”

— C. S. Lewis

379. “He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

380. “We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”

— Quintilian

381. “Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.”

— Henry Rollins

382. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.”

— Tony DeLiso

383. “I love reading – inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn’t give it to you, because I have some great things on it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

384. “I grew up kissing books and bread.”

— Salman Rushdie

385. “Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

— Ray Bradbury

386. “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.”

— Barack Obama

387. “There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.”

— Ernest Hemingway

388. “The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

389. “You chose books, I chose looks. Now see the difference?”

— Roald Dahl

390. “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

— C. S. Lewis

391. “For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.”

— Ernest Hemingway

392. “As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.”

— Louis Tomlinson

393. “It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.”

— Brandon Sanderson

394. “The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list’ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.”

— Alexander Pope

395. “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”

— Henry David Thoreau

396. “Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”

— Virginia Woolf

397. “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.”

— Audrey Hepburn

398. “I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.”

— Virginia Woolf

399. “There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”

— D.L. Moody

400. “The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.”

— Thomas Paine