“Wisdom… is knowing what you have to accept.”

— Wallace Stegner, book Angle of Repose

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American historian, writer, and environmentalist 1909–1993

Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch

Source: Son of a Witch

“You [a disciple], shall I teach you about knowledge? What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Analects, Chapter II

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom… You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: Proverbs of Hell

“Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 46

“What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana

“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.”

Marion Zimmer Bradley book The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon (1983)

“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian

One of the most commonly quoted forms.
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942)
Variant: 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.

“God grant me serenity to accept the code I cannot change, courage to change the code I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

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