Preserving Wisdom Quotes

#1. I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.

Henry James

#2. It is never crowded at the mountaintop.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Survival, I know, is to begin again.

Judy Collins

#4. Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

Arsene Houssaye

#5. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. I do wish you'd break the careless habit of using the word American as if you had stolen it from the rest of us. Use norteamericano, because we Cubans and Mexicans and Uruguayans, we're also Americans.

James A. Michener

#7. I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky
same as it always was.

Sara Gruen

#8. I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

Rachel Nichols

#9. I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.

Elizabeth Berg

#10. Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am ... well, it's fun to lose it sometimes.

Alex Haley

#11. Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

C.S. Lewis

#12. With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

John Ridley

#13. Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.

Stacey Lee

#14. Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Umberto Eco