William Wordsworth Quotes on Wisdom
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Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
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Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!
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Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
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Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,- Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave.
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Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least.
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The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
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Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.