Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Quote by William Wordsworth

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's...

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's...

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free...

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free...

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless...

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless...

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking...

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking...

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my...

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my...

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain?

But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain?

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and...

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and...

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil...

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil...

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

In the world you will have trouble but take courage for I have conquered the...

In the world you will have trouble but take courage for I have conquered the...

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.