- Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
- Franz Grillparzer on Wisdom
- Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes on 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.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Wisdom
- God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
- Johannes Tauler on Wisdom
- God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Wisdom
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter on Wisdom
- Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Wisdom
- Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
- Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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