"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future." ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Topic(s): Beauty More From Oliver Wendell Holmes "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure." "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." "The Amen of nature is always a flower." More In Beauty "The beauty of jazz is that it’s malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."― Pat Metheny "And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."― Rowan D. Williams "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."― Ralph Waldo Emerson