“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs
“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).
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Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: Of writing that is filled with mechanical and grammatical error, as compared with writing that conforms to the rules of standard edited English. Surely, we do not want to say that there is a necessary correlation between mechanical and editorial accuracy and intellectual substance. There are many books that are mechanically faultless but which contain untrue, unclear, or even nonsensical ideas. Carefully edited writing tells us, not that the writer speaks truly, but that he or she grasps... the manner in which knowledge is usually expressed. The most devastating argument against a paper that is marred by grammatical and rhetorical error is that the writer does not understand the subject.
“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Variant: Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
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George Will (1941) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
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