Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.