#wisdo

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anyone #bread #honesty #honesty is #lawful

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. ↗

— Josh Billings

#gets #grease #loudest #wheel

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ↗

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. ↗

— Josh Billings

#learning #made #never #wisdom

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#ball #crystal #crystal ball #eat #glass

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#higher #philosophy #revelation #than #wisdom

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ↗

— John Denham

#delight #ends #fours #piety #should

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#bodies #fact #highest #highest wisdom #itself

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #loving #truest #truest wisdom #wisdom