Quotes About Wisdom

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

The years teach much the days never know.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

A man is known by the books he reads.

We are wiser than we know.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.