"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun." ― Franz Grillparzer Topic(s): Wisdom More From Franz Grillparzer "Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled." "To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet." "Prose talks and poetry sings." More In Wisdom "It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology."― Freeman Dyson "Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."― Alfred North Whitehead "Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."― Alan Kay