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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

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" 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. "

" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "

Stephen Vincent Benet

" I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. "

" Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. "

" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "

" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "

John F. Kennedy

" Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. "

" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

Laurence Sterne

" Turn your wounds into wisdom. "

" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

Mary Wilson Little

" Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27. "

Solange Knowles

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" 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

" Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. "

Russell M. Nelson

" 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

" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "

Julia Ward Howe

" You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" 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. "

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" You can observe a lot by watching. "

" People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. "

" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "

John Paul Jones

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg