Wisdom Quote by Calvin Coolidge — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.”

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.”

“It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.”

“I guess, if you ever had God figured out the universe would be split in thousands of pieces and it would disappear and we who have dreamed ourselves alive would all fade away in all those splintered parts. What I mean to say is, it isn't meant for us to know anything.”

“Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!”

“The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.”

“A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.”

“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”

“Experience,’ he had been wont to say—being rather addicted, I gather, to the making of epigrammatic formulæ—‘is the hornbook of fools, unnecessary for the practical purposes of life to the man of wit.”