Quotes About Wisdom

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.

Them folks who are sudden, aint apt tew be solid; lively streams are alwus shallow.