Quotes about Wisdom
There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.
- Olga Tokarczuk
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."
- Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."
- Oprah Winfrey