Calling Quote by Anonymous

“We are made of the stuff of stars, given our lives by a living world, given our selves by time. We are brother to…

— Sheri S. Tepper

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness,…

— Robert Walser

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately…

— Myrtle Reed

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea.…

— Anonymous

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

— William Shakespeare

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

— Edith Stein

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

— Roger Scruton

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

— Marcel Proust

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

— Plato

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

— Sophocles

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld