Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell HolmesWriter · American · 1809 – 1894
More from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom QuotesTime QuotesHistory Quotes
#Beauty
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. — Herbert Spencer
  • We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw
  • The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein
  • Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026