#wisdom

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#comes #everything #having #novel #people

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

#grace #hereditary #heroic #lends #makes

No man was ever wise by chance. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chance #ever #man #wise

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#future #made #our #past #recollection

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#beginning #dread #fear #follow #humble

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#calm #coldly #exchange #eyes #given

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#investigation #result #save #wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#comes #knowledge #lingers

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#least #love #most #say #who

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. ↗

— Joe Baca

#fight #holds #ii #learned #monopoly