The Wisdom To Know The Difference Quotes

#1. Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#2. Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Plato

#3. God, grant me serenity to accept those things I can't change, the courage to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Division St.

Studs Terkel

#4. the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference." Amy

Catherine Lea

#5. Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous

Stephen Covey

#6. True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.

Sigmund Brouwer

#7. God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge

Lisa Gardner

#8. Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.

Richard Carlson

#9. She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

#10. In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country.

Nancy Pelosi

#11. I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ...

Claude McKay

#12. Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Peter Orszag

#13. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Eve Ensler

#14. I may not know you, but I don't see any difference between you and me. I see myself in you; we are one.

Debasish Mridha

#15. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#16. I imagine God creating humans was much like cavemen creating fire ... First it sparkles brightly, full of life and beauty. But then it grows, stronger and fiercer until it becomes dangerous and uncontrollable ... Then its creator can only stand on the hill and wait for his creation to die.

Ben Mitchell

#17. May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Frank Ra

#18. She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Ovid

#19. I was performing from the age of three.

Jennifer Ellison

#20. We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

Brene Brown

#21. Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

Seneca The Younger

#22. The Word of God is the wisdom of God. It makes no difference how educated you are, how many books you've read, or what you think you know in life, or about life; if you don't have the Word in you, you can't function in the wisdom of God.

Chris Oyakhilome

#23. But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Clarice Lispector

#24. I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Megan McCafferty

#25. Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

Eric Schneiderman

#26. Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Carlos Fuentes

#27. Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Helen Keller

#28. Let me guess," the frog interrupted,"Like every other human explored I've even met, you want to know the meaning of life."
"I didn't-"
"The answer's forty-four. The machine was off by two" the frog snapped, "Believe me, it makes a world of difference...

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

#29. I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.

Megan McCafferty

#30. No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.

John Boehner

#31. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.

Mara Wilson