#wisdom

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #brings #distrust #doctrine #familiar

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #comes #excel #experience #itself

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

#give #inhabit #lack #make #orders

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. ↗

— Keith Miller

#pain #truth #wisdom

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#knowledge #men #other #we cannot #wisdom

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#accept #cannot #change #changed #distinguish

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#deepest #more #philosophy #than #wisdom

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#appear #does #earth #inspired #perhaps