Quotes by Smiles, Samuel

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have >>

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost >>

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

Quotations about Wisdom

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is establishe >>

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes] >>

Better to get wisdom than gold. >>

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Smiles, Samuel