Desiderius Erasmus Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

• Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Important, Quality

• Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Library, Guilty

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.115, University of Toronto Press

• I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Use, Thumbs

  Desiderius Erasmus, Richard J. Schoeck, Beatrice Corrigan (1974). “Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus”

• By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Men, Mind

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