"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."

Wisdom, Old, Past, Result

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."

Exlpore more Wisdom quotes

"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Simplicity, Kindness, Humility, Power

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Wisdom, Learning, Experience, Observation

"Wisdom and love never decrease by being shared."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Love, Sharing, Kindness

"In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wisdom, Knowledge, Pursuit, God, Source

"Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Intelligence, Love, Knowledge

"A reader knows the mind of sacred souls."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wisdom, Reader, Mind, Souls, Sacred

"Often morality defines our inner philosophy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Morality, Philosophy, Inner, Belief

"Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Knowledge, Experience, Power

"The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Teaching, Inspiration, Purpose, Education

"Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Wisdom, Reflection, Thought, Self, Philosophy

Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

Forgiveness

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

Life

"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

Theology

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Interest

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

Discipline

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

Soul

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

Soul

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

Imagination

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Language

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Day