“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”– William James Related Quotes “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”– Alfred Lord Tennyson “Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”– Walter Scott “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