Where White Man Went Wrong

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir. - Samuel Goldwyn

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos. - Homer Simpson

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler

To acquire knowledge one must study. To acquire wisdom one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstov

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. - Anne Bradstreet

I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation. - John W. Thompson

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. - Margaret Atwood

Understand why and how your audience uses technology and then start trying to align your communications efforts. - Brian Reich

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. - Hal Borland

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. - Mark Twain

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol