Quotes about Wisdom
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
- Frank Herbert
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Dale Carnegie
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Desmond Tutu
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
- Albert Einstein
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
- Thomas a Kempis
Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
- Helen Keller
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
- Henry A. Wallace
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...
- Virginia Woolf