Matthew Arnold Quotes on Wisdom
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What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here.
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Wordsworth has gone from us - and ye, Ah, may ye feel his voice as we! He too upon a wintry clime Had fallen - on this iron time Of doubts, disputes, distractions, fears.
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Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
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It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life - to the question: How to live.
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The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?'