Where White Man Went Wrong

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

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

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

You can't have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. - American Proverb

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

We now expect more from technology and less from each other. - Sherry Turkle

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

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

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. - Alan Kay

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps. - Prince Philip

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

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

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

They're picking bananas in Brazil and them Indians down there, they don't care about what you look like. - Archie Bunker

Novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. - Kurt Vonnegut

The new information technology (Internet and e-mail) have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. - Peter F Drucker

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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. - George Lucas

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