Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Books, the children of the brain.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Books are feeders of brothels.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.