Wisdom Quotes - page 3

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? View quote
T. S. Eliot
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. View quote
William Blake
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. View quote
Josh Billings
They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom. View quote
Confucius
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. View quote
John Updike
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. (Evelyn Waugh)
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. View quote
Frank Zappa
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. View quote
Edmund Burke
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. View quote
Joseph Addison
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. (E. O. Wilson)
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. View quote
Estelle Getty
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. View quote
Woody Allen