Wisdom Quotes

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison flowers."

- John Keats

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness."

- William Shakespeare

"Bees – by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material."

- Pappus

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

- Saint Augustine

"Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace."

- Jacob Rees-Mogg

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"Wisdom is patience waiting for the right moment."

- Jack Hyles

"With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone."

- Proverbs 25:15

"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."

- Ovid

"The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime."

- Croft M. Pentz

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."

- Chinese Proverb

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Patience is the key to paradise."

- Turkish Proverb

"Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues."

- Hrithik Roshan

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

- John Burroughs

"Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another."

- Edmund Burke

"Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions."

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The bee doesn't waste time explaining to the fly why honey tastes better than garbage."

"Words are like bees – some create honey and others leave a sting."

"The bee doesn't waste time explaining to the fly why honey is better than poop."

"To understand the importance of bees is to understand the delicate balance of all life on Earth."

"Patience is also a form of action."

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time."