Acceptance Quote by Simon Van Booy

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

— Whittaker Chambers

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with…

— Sophocles

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

— Anonymous

“Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone that true…

— Jonathan Edwards

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate…

— Tad Williams

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have…

— John Tillotson

“Wisdom may begin in wonder, however, it inevitability ends in righteousness (Socrates)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

“Wisdom is neither good nor bad, male nor female, Christian or pagan: she is no one's personal possession. The Goddess of Wisdom reaches down…

— Caitlín Matthews

“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not in the…

— G.K. Chesterton

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately…

— Myrtle Reed

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom…

— Plato