Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

The written word is everything.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

Writing preserves only the thought of literate peoples.

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

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

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

Reading taught me how to write.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

A library implies an act of faith.

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.