The book's superscription, "The proverbs of Solomon...," is not to say that it as a whole or even individual proverbs should be credited to King Solomon, for scholarly examination discloses that it contains seven collections of wisdom materials (mostly short sayings) from a wide variety of periods, all after Solomon's time.
I mentioned to her that Hillary's book, "It Takes a Village," provides all of her background and experience, along with collections of wisdom from the finest, best qualified professionals, authors, parents, and children from all over the world.
"Our users are building up a huge collection of wisdom," said Tim Hickman, Backflip's chief executive.
At the centre of Pausch's remarkable tale is "The Last Lecture," an old academic conceit whereby teachers are asked to imagine they're near death and must therefore sum up the entire collection of wisdom they wish to pass on to their students in a single lecture.
Perhaps Conway's bestselling book ever was Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (first published in 1982), a collection of wisdom about games which, in early August, is being feted at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City, celebrating Conway and his co-authors, UC Berkeley's Elwyn Berlekamp and Calgary's Richard Guy.
This is a collection of wisdom you won't soon forget.
And you can contribute your own life lessons to an online collection of wisdom using the hashtag #worldchangerbook.
A collection of wisdom literature attributed to Flann Fína, the Briathra Flainn Fhina Maic Ossu, has survived, though the text is not contemporary with Aldfrith as it is in Middle Irish, a form of Irish not in use until the 10th century.
Instead, we are dependent on later philosophers, historians, and compilers of collections of ancient wisdom for disconnected quotations (fragments) and reports about their views (testimonia).
For the complete collection of life wisdom from Merlin and his creator, check out The Wisdom of Merlin by T.A. Barron.
Galeano's new "Children of the Days" is for those who feel that history has become too much of a burden to bear — a collection of inspirational wisdom, its 366 entries, one for each calendar date in the (leap) year, keeping alive the memory of courage and beauty amid the carnage.
