Quotes on Great Book

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

In this box are all the words I know… Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.

great books are the ones we need

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.