Wisdom Quote by Charles Kingsley — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.”

“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”

“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”

“I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must.”

“Strength without wisdom breeds nothing but savagery. Wisdom without strength promises nothing but extinction.”

“Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.”

“...the holy men sat in an atmosphere”

“the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”