Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Understanding Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers...

No one does anything from a single motive.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life,...

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life,...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...