Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Conversation

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Book, Men

  "A Message to Garcia" (1899)

• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, Book, Reading

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, College, Academic

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

• No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Thinking, Importance

  Elbert Hubbard (1903). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great philosophers”

• A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Doctors

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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