Where White Man Went Wrong

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophenes

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps. - Prince Philip

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom. - Adlai E. Stevenson

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

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. - Admiral Richard Byrd

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

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

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. - Unknown