Famous Quotes

"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."

Reinhold Niebuhr on Wisdom

More quotes about Wisdom

• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom

• "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."

  Aldous Huxley on Wisdom

• "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

  Audrey Hepburn on Wisdom

• "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

  Confucius on Wisdom

• "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

  Michael Jordan on Wisdom

More quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

• "Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."

• "Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."