9 William Wordsworth Quotes on Wisdom

William Wordsworth quotes on wisdom

1. Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

74. Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!

94. 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.

110. 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.

169. 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.

173. Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least.

175. The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.

176. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

196. Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.