Wisdom Quote by William Ellery Channing — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The ones who move gently through the world leave deeper footprints than the ones who shout.”

“Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.”

“A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.”

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

“Let the systems be efficient. Let us be kind.”

“A meaningful life is built from the questions we refuse to stop asking.”