Where White Man Went Wrong

Ethics change with technology. - Larry Niven

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

Even in wise men there is more folly than wisdom. - Sebastien Chamfort

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. - Christian Lange

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. - Arthur C Clarke

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

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

Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos. - Homer Simpson

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

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. - Douglas Adams

All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. - Bill Watterson

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. - Jordan Peterson

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. - Bill Gates

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale. - Elon Musk

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. - Zebulon Pike

Indian people, we are proud of our cheapness. You are never gonna insult us by calling us cheap. - Russell Peters

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. - Joseph Krutch

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. - Andrew Jackson

Indians are so dedicated to being so cheap for so long, that Indian people actually created the number zero. - Russell Peters

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

Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Carrie Snow

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 2,000 MPG. - Bill Gates

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. - Sonia Sotomayor

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world. - Billy Graham

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