Quotes about Wisdom
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
- Joseph Campbell
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
- Tertullian
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- William Hazlitt
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
- William Wordsworth
. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
- Charles Dickens
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
- Joseph Addison
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business
- Henry Ford
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
- James Allen
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
- Os Guinness
The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.
- George Eliot