Brian Andreas Quotes

He was a walking library.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

I'm a bookworm.

I'm an educated individual.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

I'm a pretty bookish person.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

To start with, look at all the books.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.