All ALBERT EINSTEIN Quotes about “Books”

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
“There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.”
“Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.”
“Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”
“I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book”
“I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”
“Never memorize what you can look up in a book.”
“I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.”
“Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.”
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
“About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.”
“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
“Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.”
“Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”
“[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.”
“The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.”

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