Famous Proverbs
53 Proverbs about Books / Page 3
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.22.
If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.23.
A donkey that carries a lot of books is not necessarily learned.24.
Teachers die, but books live on.25.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.26.
Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work.27.
Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.28.
Reading books removes sorrows from the heart.29.
Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.30.
See to it that you have many books and many friends -- but be sure they are good ones.