Famous Quotes

"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."

Dean Inge on Wisdom

More quotes about Wisdom

• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom

• "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."

  Aldous Huxley on Wisdom

• "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

  Audrey Hepburn on Wisdom

• "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

  Confucius on Wisdom

• "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

  Michael Jordan on Wisdom

More quotes by Dean Inge

• "Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true."

• "Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves."

• "Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."

• "All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."

• "I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out."