Quotes & Sayings About Books Thomas Jefferson

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. — James Thomson

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice. — Thomas Jefferson

Without books, I would certainly die. — Thomas Jefferson

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. — Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson

A room without books is like a life without meaning. — Thomas Jefferson

[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. — Thomas Jefferson

Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must believe? — Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live qithout books"~ Thomas Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality. — Lauren Conrad

Without his books, Thomas Jefferson could not have been Thomas Jefferson. For someone like him living on a frontier, remote from actual experience, books were vital guides to how life might be lived, and none gave him greater inspiration, satisfaction, — Bill Bryson

I cannot live without books. — Thomas Jefferson

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them — Thomas Jefferson

When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation. — Molly Friedenfeld

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. — Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. — Thomas Jefferson

I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. — Fran Lebowitz

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. — Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. — Ted Turner

Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom.
Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose. — Oliver DeMille

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library. — Thomas Jefferson

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. — David Simon

Music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson

I can't live without books — Thomas Jefferson

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind — Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives. — D.H. Lawrence

I cannot live without my books" - — Thomas Jefferson

Whenever I felt tempted to, I don't know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this [Louis] Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there's so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times. — Jeffrey Rosen

It's not how you go into church,but it's how you come out that will make a difference in your life. — Jay Seei