"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel | Hope | 19 bookmarks

"There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather."

Luther, Martin | Wisdom | 1 bookmarks

"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."

Iles, George | Doubt | 2 bookmarks

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus | Advice | 3 bookmarks

"And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus | God | 4 bookmarks

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus | Suffering | 1 bookmarks

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma | Despair | 4 bookmarks

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma | Faith | 7 bookmarks

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma | Freedom | 4 bookmarks

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma | Humankind | 5 bookmarks