Wisdom Quotes

"Wisdom comes not from books alone, but from the struggle for what is right."

"Ignorance and prejudice are distant cousins; one gives birth to the other."

"Delay is preferable to error."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain."

"The ancients had a great deal of wisdom."

"I would suggest that we might turn to better account the various abilities in every man."

"Plant seeds of improvement everywhere."

"The highest truths are often the simplest and must be the plainest things in the world."

"Slaveholders are not able to see their own condition."

"There is always hope that one may correct a censurable act, but none that one may retrieve a censurable word."

"He who has conquered his own selfishness has conquered the enemy."

"True wisdom often comes in the form of a hard question."

"Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home and lives where it is made welcome."

"It is the mind that makes the body."

"I have learned more in sorrow than I could ever learn in joy."

"I speak with the authority of one who has lived through the darkness."

"Some of the most miserable people I have ever seen are those who are so hard and unyielding in their demands upon others that they have ceased to make any demands upon themselves."

"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly."

"Let us make our assessment of what constitutes the greatest good for the greatest number."

"The education which I received has been a practical education in the school of experience."

"The true college will ever have one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the world."

"Once the object of ambition is gained, it loses its potency."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"I declare that woman must not depend upon the protection of man."

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality"

"God gave you an intelligent mind"

"Everything that's part of your life should have meaning"