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" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom. "

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. "

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

Thornton Wilder

" The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof. "

" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "

William Ralph Inge

" And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. "

" You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. "

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. "

" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

Jonathan Schell

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "

Christopher Reeve

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" To advise is not to compel. "

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

" I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. "

" If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "

" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "

" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "