Mankind Quote by Robert Southey

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom (Job 32:7).

— Bible

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud…

— Sophocles

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with…

— Sophocles

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an…

— Alexander Hamilton

Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him…

— Bahá'u'lláh

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

— William Morley Punshon

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

— Nhat Hanh

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

— Psalm 107:43

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no…

— Saint Augustine

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from…

— Friedrich Nietzsche