A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

— Howard Zinn

“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.”

— Assegid Habtewold

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

— Sreenivasan

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear…

— Henry David Thoreau

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

— Henry David Thoreau

How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

— Henry David Thoreau

To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be…

— Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum

“Sorrow comes from fear, fear comes from insecurity, insecurity comes from psychological obscurity, which is the lack of wisdom.”

— Abhijit Naskar