Quotes about Wisdom

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

All truths wait in all things

What ever satisfies the soul is truth.

Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.