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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." »John Ruskin
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"wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation." »Sid Taylor
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"Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense." »Ingrid Weir
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"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." »Vartan Gregorian
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible." »Al Jaffee
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"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book." »Muriel Clark
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"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too." »Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
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"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." »Thomas Merton
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." »George Gordon Byron
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson
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"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides." »Gene Oliver
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"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! wisdom is the child of the storm." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you." »Proverbs 47-8
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." »Walter Lippmann
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"Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends." »John Selden
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"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." »Theodore Isaac Rubin
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"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out." »Unknown
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." »Franz Kafka
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