A Quote by George William Curtis

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

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George William Curtis
American - Author
February 24, 1824 - August 31, 1892

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

Richard de Bury

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Vincent Van Gogh

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

Mother Teresa

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

Warren Farrell

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Heinrich Heine

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

Marilynne Robinson

Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a little different.

Suhayl Saadi

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Plato

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Ray Bradbury

Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.