Quotes about Wisdom
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
— Dennis Prager
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.
— Glenn Beck
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
— Publilius Syrus
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
— Virginia Woolf
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
— John Milton
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
— Theodore Roosevelt