Books Quote by Samuel Daniel Download Open image “The wise are above books.” — Samuel Daniel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Wisdom Wise
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. — Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Copy Share Image
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
“O blessed Letters, that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all: By you we doe conferre with who are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so?… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
