Top 100 Wisdom Book Quotes
#1. 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
#2. He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living.
Luis Marques
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. In darkness lies a mystery that has the power to shine brighter than true light.
Luis Marques
#9. I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.
Anne Holm
#10. What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn't say, what one does and doesn't do, what one thinks and doesn't think.
Michel Onfray
#11. 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
#12. The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger.
Luis Marques
#13. Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become.
Luis Marques
#14. What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.
George W. Bush
#18. 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
#20. Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.
Luis Marques
#22. When you steal a book, you steal from the world. the Library propaganda said
Rachel Caine
#23. Dare to seek knowledge; it is like a search for a valuable treasure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you ...
Colette
#28. Reading books you like can soothe an invisible wound that irritatingly bleeds one's mood.
Angelica Hopes
#30. You may think you're not blind, but can you see in the dark?
Luis Marques
#31. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
William Butler Yeats
#33. There is no other book like the Bible. It reveals a different kind of wisdom, comes from a different source, and tells of a different love.
Kevin DeYoung
#34. Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says.
Peter Wilkes
#35. Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#36. A team is better 'cos your aptitude is multiplied in your members
Ikechukwu Joseph
#37. I am the author of a book called "My Life's Journey" and creator of my destiny.
Debasish Mridha
#38. 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
#39. You could have learned from a book, they are for all intents and purposes quite safe. What one does with the information gathered however is a different matter altogether.
S. Vagus
#40. Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.
The teevee debilitates our culture.
Inga Muscio
#41. My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.
Torii Hunter
#43. 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
#44. Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.
Luis Marques
#45. You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you.
Luis Marques
#46. 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
#47. We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever ...
Luis Marques
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.
John Alfred Langford
#51. 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
#53. There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?
Maggie Stiefvater
#54. If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#56. Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
#57. To become an Asetian is to die and be reborn. To forget all you have learned and learn all you have forgotten.
Luis Marques
#58. Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul.
Luis Marques
#60. If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.
Carl Jung
#61. I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
Santosh Kalwar
#62. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
Idries Shah
#65. 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
#66. 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. Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
Larry Heinemann
#69. Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom
Robert S. Jepson Jr.
#70. The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.
Christopher Hitchens
#71. Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
Joan Erikson
#72. 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. Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
Bliss Perry
#75. 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
#76. Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
Carolyn Hart
#77. Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
Dan Brown
#78. 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
#79. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
Romain Rolland
#80. 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
#81. A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.
S.J. Parris
#83. Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance.
Luis Marques
#85. Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.
George W. Bush
#86. 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
#87. Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
Katherine Paterson
#88. 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
#89. Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#90. 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
#91. After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
Maggie Stiefvater
#92. 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
#94. Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
J.C. Ryle
#95. Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love.
Debasish Mridha
#96. If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. 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
#98. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT
Eddie Johnson
#99. Imagination has no book value, but has imaginative value.
Debasish Mridha
#100. 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
