Top 206 Textbooks Quotes & Sayings

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?

I'm pushing - on a bipartisan basis, actually - to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol grounds.

Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.

We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.

School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

I used to have to borrow textbooks from my mate in another class. When he was away I'd have no textbooks and the teacher would say, 'Anh, you have to go to detention.' I didn't want to tell her my mum didn't have the money.

Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.