"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us." ― George Eliot Topic(s): Wisdom Tags: helpful, wisdom More From George Eliot "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know." "Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive." "In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations." More In Wisdom "A short saying often contains much wisdom."― Sophocles "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."― George Santayana "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."― Stephen Vincent Benet