Quote by Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern

The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.

The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a clou

Summary

This quote suggests that the number of books present in someone's library may actually serve as evidence of their lack of knowledge or understanding. It implies that merely collecting a large amount of books does not equate to being well-informed or educated. Instead, it highlights the importance of actually reading and engaging with the content of those books in order to truly gain knowledge and insight. Simply having a library full of books without actively delving into them can imply a person's ignorance or indifference towards their potential.

Topics

Libraries

By Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

Art Misery

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that c

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Henry Louis Gates

Great

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behin

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Death

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquir

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Help

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievem

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Beauty Society Self Esteem Body Image Weight

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Computers Science

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse r

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph J. Cudworth

Politics

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some d

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

William Christopher

Hope

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Arguments

Niemand kann euch etwas erÃ¶ffnen, das nicht schon im DÃ¤mme

Niemand kann euch etwas erÃ¶ffnen, das nicht schon im DÃ¤mmern eures Wissens schlummert.

Education Knowledge

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

Humor

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Time Politics