Top 100 The Book Of Wisdom Quotes
#2. The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.
Idries Shah
#3. When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.
Luis Marques
#4. Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance.
Luis Marques
#5. I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.
Benjamin Carson
#6. I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
Louis L'Amour
#7. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
Gotze Dijkstra
#8. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William Curtis
#9. Since most of us have only given or received love in a conditioned or partial way, the idea that anyone or anything can be read like an open book may seemforeign or scary - or even fantastical and ridiculous, absurd and fallacious.
Catherine Carrigan
#10. Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ...
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.
Umberto Eco
#11. An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.
Luis Marques
#12. Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. The hidden mist of forgotten truth is not for the mundane eye to see ...
Luis Marques
#14. However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.
Luis Marques
#15. [Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
Ann Plato
#16. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten
Leviak B. Kelly
#17. King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.
Charlie Lovett
#19. May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
Celeste Cooper
#20. There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
Al-Shafi'i
#21. What appear to be depravity, injury, or extinction are merely traces of memory and experience obscuring the soul. These are merely shadows of the soul, never its substance. The soul itself is always pure and whole.
Ilchi Lee
#22. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
Umberto Eco
#23. Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night.
Luis Marques
#24. A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. I read in a book the following piece of wisdom: 'He who remains silent in the face of injustice is a mute Satan.' I went out into the streets and saw Satans everywhere.
Osama Alomar
#26. Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
#27. Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
Edgar Lee Masters
#28. He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living.
Luis Marques
#29. The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophesy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.
Dan Brown
#30. Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered,wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right,but a privilege of the evolved.
Luis Marques
#32. It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
Abdu'l- Baha
#34. REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
Ambrose Bierce
#35. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#37. Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life experience can make all the difference.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#38. You open doors when you open books ... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.
Wilferd Peterson
#39. the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)
KoKo Nervelli
#41. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.
Gavriel Savit
#42. In darkness lies a mystery that has the power to shine brighter than true light.
Luis Marques
#43. There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.
Luis Marques
#47. I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.
Andre Hueston Mack
#48. There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc ... he who seeks for guidance ... may look inside its covers & find illumination
Herbert Hoover
#49. Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger.
Luis Marques
#51. Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
Oscar Wilde
#54. No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night ...
Luis Marques
#55. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
Carl Sagan
#56. In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we're lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we're truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top.
Joanne Crisner
#57. This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Paul Ricoeur
#58. Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul.
Luis Marques
#60. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#61. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.
Martha Sweeney
#63. The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.
John Daniel
#64. Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze.
Luis Marques
#65. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#68. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.
Luis Marques
#69. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#70. Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#71. Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom
Robert S. Jepson Jr.
#72. The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.
Christopher Hitchens
#73. For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.
Janwillem Van De Wetering
#74. The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.
Gayle Lynds
#75. The Bible This Book [is] the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is Wisdom; this is the royal Law; these are the lively Oracles of God.
Anonymous
#76. You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
Ricky Mathieson
#77. The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.
Liv Ullmann
#78. Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.
Scott Cunningham
#79. The deepest of powers are often the most subtle. Something that most fail to realize ...
Luis Marques
#80. Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
Cornel West
#81. People is wise 'cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience - from knowin' each day is a gift and accepting it with gladness. You read a whole lot of books, and readin' sure has made you smart, but ain't no book in the world gonna make you wise.
Beth Hoffman
#82. The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp.
Luis Marques
#83. They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods,
proud in their power over heaven and earth.
They grew strong in their knowledge
but weak in their wisdom,
craving more and still more power,
crushing the defenseless.
_ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV
Mary E. Pearson
#84. Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart, it's very special and very unique to me.
Euginia Herlihy
#85. Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder
oh, what will you think of me
if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy Parker
#87. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...
Luis Marques
#88. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
Kenneth Minogue
#89. Many books mean many windows; many windows mean many new lights! Don't get stuck in one window, one book, one man, one country and one belief! Increase your windows! Wisdom is the house made of only windows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct
a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.
Virgil Suarez
#92. It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend.
Luis Marques
#93. New Self, New World is an extraordinary work - an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world's great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended.
Larry Dossey
#94. The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)
Dannye Williamsen
#95. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT
Eddie Johnson
#96. Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.
Luis Marques
#97. Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it.
Abhijit Naskar
#98. 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
#99. If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#100. Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes?
Luis Marques
