Wisdom Quote by Anne Bradstreet — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

“The Author To Her Book”

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.”

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

“You know where I’m from, love is a beautiful, scared thing shared between two people. It’s not set with all the boundaries and daggers you young people put on everything. If you love a person, you love them. If you want to be with them, you be with them. If it’s not meant to be, love them from afar, free from the pain. You will tear your heart and self in two trying to avoid love.”

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology—but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked of us.”

“Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.”

“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”