Accept Quote by Wallace Stegner

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

— Wallace Stegner

“We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.”

— Shane Wall

“Wisdom is applied knowledge.”

— Izak Botha

“Sometimes wisdom is simply the ability to recognize the truth, and to speak you heart, in spite of everything you fear to be true.”

— Erica Verrillo

“Wisdom can be offered only by those from whom wisdom flows.”

— Timothy Bax

“Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

— Heraclitus

“Knowing something is not enough, doing something with what you know is the key. After all, that’s where wisdom comes from.”

— Alexis G. Roldan

“We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right.”

— Nick Bostrom

“Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom is doing it.”

— Dan Millman

“Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.”

— Ayya Khema

“I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wisdom comes from allowing the truth to speak.”

— Henry Johnson Jr