Wisdom Quote by Walt Whitman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,”

“I believe in the flesh and the appetites;”

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love”

“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,”

“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

“THREE BASIC TRUTHS”

“Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

“Healing doesn’t begin when the cup is finally full, but when it is finally set down.”

“You are not what you are;”

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.”

“Worry is not a weakness to overcome, but a message to understand.”