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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Tyron Edwards

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

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
US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971)

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things
(369 BC - 286 BC)

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Roman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC)

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace, Odes
Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC)

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes
Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC)

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar Bradley
US general (1893 - 1981)

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli
British politician (1804 - 1881)

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971)

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
English astronomer (1882 - 1944)

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