It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck
More from: Maurice Maeterlinck
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. -
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. -
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. -
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God. -
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
More quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
- We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
- We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
- An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.