No book was so bad but some good might be got out of it - Pliny
Quote
“No book was so bad but some good might be got out of it”
Author
Pliny says he sifted through two thousand books for the facts he found valuable enough to share.
Reference
The Idea Machine - How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future - Joel Miller
Related
- A book is a machine to think with - I A RIchards
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations - Henry David Thoreau
- It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive - James Baldwin
- What an astonishing thing a book is - Carl Sagan
- What an astonishing thing a book is. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions binding together people who never knew each other. - Carl Sagan