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Books are treasures for a person whose ultimate purpose is to gather knowledge. Books give great wisdom to us and also help us nurture our character and the understanding of our own self. However, you must be more careful when choosing books because certain books can even hamper your growth. People, with their different tastes, choose different authors to read and that makes a hundred different genres in fiction alone and much more in non-fiction. Read the following quotes on books to know how important they are to us.

Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Library
Anatole France
Roger Federer

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Roger Federer
Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Good Life Conscience
Mark Twain
Eudora Welty

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

Life People Comparisons Disappointment
Eudora Welty
Boris Johnson

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

People Dinner
Boris Johnson
Mary Mouser

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Love
Mary Mouser
Charles Kingsley

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Love Ability Zeal Comparisons
Charles Kingsley
Mary Mouser

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.

Love
Mary Mouser
Hillaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Hope
Hillaire Belloc
Donald Glover

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Obsession Kids
Donald Glover
Louisa May Alcott

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

Good
Louisa May Alcott
John Greenleaf Whittier

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Best Meaningful Music Appreciation
John Greenleaf Whittier
Jason Momoa

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

People
Jason Momoa
Prince

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

Prince
Taika Waititi

One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'

Taika Waititi
Mao Zedong

To read too many books is harmful.

Mao Zedong
Samuel L. Jackson

I love comic books and I love anime.

Love
Samuel L. Jackson
Mitch Albom

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Short People
Mitch Albom
George Carlin

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Funny Inspiration Purpose Defeat
George Carlin
Vladimir Putin

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

People
Vladimir Putin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Love Sweet Education Learning
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Charles Kingsley

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Bible People Mistakes
Charles Kingsley
Matt Smith

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

Cool
Matt Smith

I didn't read a lot of comic books. But I was into 'Dandy and The Beano,' which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz - pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.

Robert Sheehan
Chris Pine

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.

Greatness Power
Chris Pine
Terri Guillemets

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

Past Remembrance Thinking Writers
Terri Guillemets
Henry Cavill

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

Growing Up
Henry Cavill
Noam Chomsky

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Bible History
Noam Chomsky
Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon
Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Life Acceptance Personality Character
Theodore Roosevelt
Hilary Swank

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

Hilary Swank
James Russell Lowell

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Mind
James Russell Lowell
Denzel Washington

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Office Unemployment
Denzel Washington
Jamie Lee Curtis

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Jamie Lee Curtis
Don DeLillo

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Language
Don DeLillo
Walt Disney

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

Walt Disney
John Milton

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

John Milton
Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Lonliness
Martin Luther
Mitch Albom

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Music
Mitch Albom
William Osler

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

William Osler
Kanye West

I am not a fan of books.

Kanye West
Elizabeth Olsen

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

Entertainment
Elizabeth Olsen
Horace

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom Lonliness
Horace
Julie Bowen

I read books more than I go out.

Julie Bowen
Billy Joel

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Boxing
Billy Joel
Mitch Albom

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

Mitch Albom
Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History
Anatole France
Hailey Baldwin

I know all the books of the Bible.

Bible
Hailey Baldwin
Charlie Kaufman

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

Reading
Charlie Kaufman
Jamie Lee Curtis

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Jamie Lee Curtis
Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Work
Richard Burton
Chanakya

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.

Wealth Knowledge
Chanakya
Laurence Sterne

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

People
Laurence Sterne
Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens
Charles Lamb

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Prayer Service
Charles Lamb
Zora Neale Hurston

I regret all of my books.

Zora Neale Hurston
Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

People
Bob Dylan
Paul McCartney

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Children
Paul McCartney
J. K. Rowling

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

J. K. Rowling
Kevin Bacon

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

Movies
Kevin Bacon
Emma Roberts

I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

Emma Roberts
Liam Neeson

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Reading God
Liam Neeson
Harry S. Truman

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Race Education Thought
Harry S. Truman
Liam Hemsworth

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

Liam Hemsworth
MS Dhoni

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

Army
MS Dhoni
W. H. Auden

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden
LeBron James

I don't read books much.

LeBron James
Sigmund Freud

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Progress
Sigmund Freud
Gavin Newsom

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

Business
Gavin Newsom
Ernest Hemingway

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Good
Ernest Hemingway
Winona Ryder

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

Love
Winona Ryder
Hilary Duff

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

Respect Talent
Hilary Duff
Stephen Colbert

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

Heart
Stephen Colbert
Jodie Foster

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Jodie Foster
Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Anatole France
Carl Jung

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

History
Carl Jung
Anna Kendrick

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

Anna Kendrick
T. S. Eliot

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Silence Void
T. S. Eliot
John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Life Reading
John Ruskin
Samuel Johnson

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Samuel Johnson
D. H. Lawrence

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

D. H. Lawrence
J. K. Rowling

I would always want printed books.

J. K. Rowling
Amy Winehouse

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Amy Winehouse
George Michael

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

History
George Michael
Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Good
Winston Churchill
John Ruskin

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Time
John Ruskin
Steven Wright

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Purpose Children
Steven Wright
Robert Frost

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost
Katee Sackhoff

I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.

Reading
Katee Sackhoff
Chuck Palahniuk

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

World
Chuck Palahniuk
Virat Kohli

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

Virat Kohli
Lily Collins

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'

Lily Collins
Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Nothing
Henry Ward Beecher
Stellan Skarsgard

There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.

Time
Stellan Skarsgard
Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Friendship Meditation
Alice Walker
John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Time
John Ruskin
Tom Felton

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

Tom Felton
Kristen Stewart

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

Kristen Stewart
Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is books.

Mankind
Aldous Huxley