Quotes by Smiles, Samuel

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- >>

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it wit >>

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great resul >>

Quotations about Wisdom

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. >>

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare >>

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own bl >>

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel