Book Quote by Franz Rosenthal

“I found something wonderfully satisfying in the notion that you can attain Reality by knowledge. In later ages the sages of India in recognition…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently, Wastes not breathe on others affairs; possess foremost mark of wisdom truly. [25] - 33 Mahatma Vidur”

— Munindra Misra

“When the Professor is told by the Polynesian that once there was nothing except a great feathered serpent, unless the learned man feels a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Him I call indeed a Brahmana whose knowledge is deep, who possesses wisdom, who knows the right way and the wrong, and has attained…

— Various

“And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as…

— Salman Rushdie

“The Indian Buddhist guru Shantideva had some wise words on this very subject,” Lobsang said. He began to quote: “‘When crows encounter a dying…

— David Michie

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better…

— Joseph Boyden

“Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Kaliya a poor village boy show us with endurance we can touch the sky & even after the death of our beloved, love should…

— Sagar Patel

“Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.”

— Bob P. Buford

“The educational element in the adab discussion of knowledge is unmistakable in a monograph entitled “The Encouragement of Seeking and Being Eager to Gather…

— Franz Rosenthal