Beautiful Words of Wisdom Quotes
Inspiring Quotes About Wisdom
Beautiful words of wisdom quotes can inspire and teach us. Here are some of my favorite quotes about wisdom.
The beauty of great quotes is how a very profound thought can be expressed in a very few words. Authors and poets who are skilled with language leave a legacy of quotable nuggets including these quotes about wisdom.
One of those poets, and a favorite of mine, is Robert Frost. His "words of wisdom quotes" touch on many aspects of life. Here are just a few of his wise sayings:
- A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~Robert Frost
- If one by one we counted people out for the least sin, it wouldn't take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. ~Robert Frost
- Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. ~Robert Frost
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost
- I always entertain great hopes. ~Robert Frost
- But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost
Words of Wisdom Quotes About Love
Quotes about wisdom in love might save us many heartaches if we understood, and practiced, what real love is and how it shows itself.
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
~ Victor Hugo - And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you; I am at rest with you; I have come home. ~Dorothy Sayers
- Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. ~David Augsburger
- The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~Elie Wiesel - Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~Sam Keen
- Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~Franklin P. Jones
Words of Wisdom Quotes About Families
All of us are part of a family. We may not have had an ideal family or even been raised within our family of origin. However we are all part of the human family and have the longing for the close relationship the word 'family' evokes.
- When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being "better," and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. ~Robert Frost
- All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~Leo Tolstoy
- In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. ~Auguste Napier
- The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Theodore Hesburgh
Words of Wisdom Quotes About Frienship
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie
- In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends. ~James Ishmael Ford
- The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. ~Francis Bacon
- True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value. ~Ben Jonson
- How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. ~Robert McAfee Brown
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