Wisdom Quote by George Gordon Byron — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;”

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star,”

“The stars are forth, the moon above the tops”

“Jeremiah has come to see life as a serious of motions he must enact towards its conclusion.”

“Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.”

“When the prophet, a complacent fat man,”

“Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'”

“If our memory is a compass rather than an anchor of the past, we can reinterpret our history in light of the present. By living in forward motion, we can select wisdom from our experience, without being haunted by it. When we identify what we are leaving behind and why we do so, we can leave mental chaos and go forward with confidence. (“Never looking back again”)”

“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.”