Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
- Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
- If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.
- Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
- Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
- There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
- For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
- The greater man the greater courtesy.
- I am a part of all I have seen.
- I am a part of all that I have met.
- Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Best Quotes
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
- My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
- I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
- Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
- Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.