Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "

Related Quotes:

" A closed mouth catches no flies. "

Miguel de Cervantes

" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. "

" I am too pure for you or anyone. "

" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. "

" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. "

" Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions). "

" I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea. "

" A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. "

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

William Dean Howells

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. "

" Is there no way out of the mind? "

" You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. "

" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "

" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "

" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

Thornton Wilder

" Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "

" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth. "