#wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#doors #never #shut #the doors

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness. ↗

— George Eliot

#intelligence #wisdom #intelligence

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#opposition #wisdom #courage

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#cool #fun #humor #inspirational #wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#always #strength

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny-quotes #humor-quotes #inspirational #iving #making-a-difference

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#conserative #liberal #politics #wisdom #age

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life #love #relationships #romance #wisdom

You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you. ↗

— Rose Christo

#wisdom #change

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies. ↗

— Madeleine De Souvre Sable

#learning #wisdom #humility