Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson View this quote
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched. Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. Sophocles
Sophocles
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates
Socrates