"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Wisdom Tags: wisdom More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." "We acquire the strength we have overcome." "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace." More In Wisdom "To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence."― Adam Clarke "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."― Adlai E. Stevenson "Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."― Alexander Pope