" 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 "
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance....Benjamin Franklin "
" 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 "
" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures....Lao Tzu "
" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration...Thomas A. Edison "
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech...Benjamin Franklin "
"Patience is the companion of wisdom....Saint Augustine "
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe...Marilyn vos Savant "
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment... Lao Tzu "
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy....Ludwig van Beethoven "
" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance....Francis of Assisi "
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance....H. L. Mencken "
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity...Calvin Coolidge "
" He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God....Aeschylus "
