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| Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. | St. Gregory The Great | c. 540-604, Italian Pope |
| Beware of the person of one book. | St. Thomas Aquinas | 1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian |
| The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. | Stan Barstow | 1928-, British Novelist, Playwright |
| Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. | Stanislaw J. Lec | 1909-, Polish Writer |
| Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. | Stephane Mallarme | 1842-1898, French Symbolist Poet |
| The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. | Stephane Mallarme | 1842-1898, French Symbolist Poet |
| The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. | Stephen B. Leacock | 1869-1944, Canadian Humorist, Economist |
| It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. | Stephen Hawking | 1942-, British Theoretical Physicist |
| Books are not men and yet they stay alive. | Stephen Vincent Benet | 1989-1943, American Novelist, Poet |
| Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. | Steven Spielberg | 1947-, American Director, Screenwriter |
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| Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. | Susan Sontag | 1933-, American Essayist |
| Perversity is the muse of modern literature. | Susan Sontag | 1933-, American Essayist |
| Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. | Sydney Joseph Perelman | 1904-1979, American Humorous Writer |
| I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs? | Sydney Pfizer | |
| No furniture is so charming as books. | Sydney Smith | 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman |
| Live always in the best company when you read. | Sydney Smith | 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman |
| Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. | Sydney Smith | 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman |
| Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. | Sylvia Plath | 1932-1963, American Poet |
| I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. | Tallulah Bankhead | 1903-1968, American Actress |
| Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. | Tatyana Tolstaya | |
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| I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. | Tennessee Williams | 1914-1983, American Dramatist |
| The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. | Theodore Parker | 1810-1860, American Minister |
| A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. | Thomas B. Aldrich | 1836-1907, American Writer, Editor |
| After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| The true university of these days is a collection of books. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
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| There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. | Thomas Ð Kempis | 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer |
| A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. | Thomas Ehrlich | |
| Old foxes want no tutors. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
| Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
| Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
| The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. | Thomas H. Huxley | 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator |
| Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. | Thomas H. Huxley | 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator |
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| It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. | Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet |
| Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. | Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet |
| The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. | Thomas Hobbes | 1588-1679, British Philosopher |
| 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 | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| I cannot live without books. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. | Thomas L. Masson | |
| An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgement, in that it creates. | Thomas Mann | 1875-1955, German Author, Critic |
| Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates. | Thomas Mann | 1875-1955, German Author, Critic |
| An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but contains nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. | Thomas Traherne | 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic |
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