Famous quotes about books

As a book lover, I usually collect famous quotes about books.

Reading makes people enriched; talking makes people agile; writing and note-taking make people precise. History makes people wise; poetry makes people clever; mathematics makes people precise; natural history makes people profound; ethics makes people solemn; logic and rhetoric make people eloquent.

Reading as a young man is like peeping at the moon through a gap; reading in middle age is like looking at the moon in a courtyard; reading as an old man is like playing with the moon on the stage. All are based on the shallowness and depth of experience, and the shallowness and depth of what they have gained.

Chute: Books are the only immortal thing.

Edison: Books are the legacy left to mankind by a great genius.

Voltaire: Reading makes people’s eyes bright.

Mao Dun: Knowledge is the accumulation of experience, and talent is the endurance of hard work.

"Han Yuefu·Long Song Xing": If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be sad.

Zhu Xi: There are three things you need to do when reading, which means understanding with your heart, understanding with your eyes, and understanding with your mouth. If the mind is not here, the eyes will not look carefully. The mind will not be focused, but will only read rambles. It will never be remembered, and it will not be remembered for a long time. Among the three arrivals, I feel the most anxious. Now that the heart is here, won’t the eyes and mouth not care?

Shakespeare: Life without books is like a life without sunshine; wisdom without books is like a bird without wings.

Franklin: Reading is my only entertainment. I don't waste my time in hotels, gambling, or any kind of bad games; but I work as hard as necessary on my career.