Wisdom Quote by G.K. Chesterton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.”

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.”

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”

“I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.”

“I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”

“There are no laws, only habits of existence so deep that to break them would require unmaking the world that contains them.”

“Building a strong bridge makes a legend; saving those who fall from a weak one makes a hero.”