Quotes about Wisdom

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!