"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
― Reinhold Niebuhr
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Wisdom
More From Reinhold Niebuhr
- "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
- "Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
- "If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
More In Wisdom
- "Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."― Ray Kurzweil
- "The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought."― Edward Young
- "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."― Aesop