"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 "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think." "I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons." "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." More In Wisdom "It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see."― Henry David Thoreau "The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."― Thomas Malthus "Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."― William Wordsworth