Quotes about Wisdom
The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.
— Bob Marley
Humility says, "Lord, I am empty without Your fullness; I am broken without Your wholeness; I am helpless without Your strength; I am clueless without your wisdom. Apart from You I am nothing. I need You!
— Bob Sorge
Strange, then, is the blindness of the intellect, which does not consider that which it sees first and without which it can know nothing.
— St Bonaventure
Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.
— Booker T. Washington
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
— Booker T. Washington
Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I
— Booker T. Washington
In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South. From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
— Booker T. Washington
Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.
— Booker T. Washington
For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.
— Heinrich Heine
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
— Helen Keller
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
— Helen Keller
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
— Helen Keller