Quotes: Wisdom

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.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free it’s simply because of the experiences that I’ve had, and the wisdom I’ve accumulated from that time.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.