All VOLTAIRE Quotes about “Books”

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
“Only your friends steal your books.”
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.”
“I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.”
“Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.”
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
“It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.”
“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
“I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little”
“A small number of choice books are sufficient.”
“All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”
“If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire”

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