Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Speech in New York City, November 19, 1905.

• America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Lying, Book

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

• The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Reading, Book, Men

• The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...
  
  things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Simple, Men

• This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments."

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Voice, Humanity

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