Quotes about "Life Wisdom"

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years. ”

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. ”

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. ”

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ”

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ”

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. ”

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. ”

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ”

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. ”

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. ”