Books Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

— John Hay

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

— Edith Hamilton

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

— John Morley

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

— Anonymous

The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is…

— Graeme Goldsworthy

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

— Emmanuel Macron

“Job is a wisdom book. But not all wisdom books are alike.[42] Proverbs contains instructional literature (discourses and proverbs) that encourage wise behavior by…

— Tremper Longman III

People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

— Edward Abbey

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst