Quotes about Wisdom
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
- Gloria Steinem
I know who the great poets are.
- Jack Kerouac
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
- Woodrow Wilson
It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.
- Reba McEntire
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Tuhan, karuniailah saya ketabahan untuk menerima hal-hal yang tidak bisa saya ubah, Keberanian untuk mengubah hal-hal yang bisa saya ubah, Dan kebijaksanaan untuk membedakan keduanya.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- 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.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.
- 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. the one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.
- Reinhold Niebuhr