Quotes about Balance
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
— Albert Einstein
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
— Victor Hugo
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
— DH Lawrence
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
— Edmund Burke
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
— Mark Twain
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
— Thomas a Kempis
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
— Erica Jong
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
— John Wesley
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
— John Milton
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
— Thomas a Kempis
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
— Thomas Merton
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
— Lauren Kate