Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Quote by Barbara W Tuchman

Topics: Books Quotes, History Quotes, Literature Quotes

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him,...

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him,...

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books...

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books...

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents,...

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents,...

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages...

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages...

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are...

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are...

Only your friends steal your books

Only your friends steal your books

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known...

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known...

Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

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

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