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| "A fool will learn nothing from a wise
man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool." |
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- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551 - c. 479 BC).
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| "We are drowning in information, but
starved for knowledge." |
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| "1500 years ago, everyone knew that the
sun revolved around the earth. 500 years ago, everyone knew the world
was flat. Yesterday you knew that we were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." |
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| "Old places and old persons in their
turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which
youth is incapable; precisely the balance and wisdom that comes from
long perspectives and broad foundations." |
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- George Santayana, My Host the World (1953)
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| "Ultimately, man should not ask what
the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he
who is asked." |
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| "The wise man understands equity;
the small man understands only profits." |
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- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551 - c. 479 BC).
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| "The beginning of intelligence is
discrimination between the probable and improbable, and acceptance of
the inevitable." |
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- Solomon ibn Gabirol, Spanish poet and grammarian (1021 - 1069).
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| "There are the people that learn from
other peoples' mistakes, and there are the other people...." |
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| "Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root
of knowledge." |
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| "[We] can best understand learning as
growth, an expanding of ourselves into the world around us. We can
also see that there is no difference between living and learning, that
living is learning, that it is impossible, and misleading, and harmful
to think of them as being separate." |
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| "A modern commentator made the
observation that there are those who seek knowledge about everything
and understand nothing. It is wonder — not mere curiosity —
a sense
of enchantment, of respect for the mysteries of love for the other,
that is essential to the difference between a knowing that is simply a
gathering of information and techniques and a knowing that seeks
insight and understanding. It is wonder that reveals how intimate is
the relationship between knowledge of the other and knowledge of the
self, between inwardness and outwardness." |
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| "We don't receive wisdom; we must
discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us
or spare us." |
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| "We should be careful to get out of an
experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we
be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will
never sit down on a hot stove-lid again and that is well; but
also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." |
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"There are four sorts of men:
- He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a
fool-shun him.
- He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is
simple-teach him.
- He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake
him.
- He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow
him."
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| "The man who views the world at 50 the
same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." |
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| "A man lies in his bed in a room with
no doors. He waits, hoping for a presence, something, anything,
to enter. After spending half his life searching, he still felt
as blank as the ceiling at which he stares. He is alive, but
feels absolutely nothing, so is he? When he was six, he felt
that the moon overhead followed him, by nine he had deciphered the
illusion, trading magic for fact. No tradebacks. So this
is what it's like to be an adult. If he only knew now what he
knew then." |
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| "Wisdom too often never comes, and so
one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late." |
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- Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting, Henslee v. Union Planters
Bank (1948)
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| "When I was a boy of 14, my father was
so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when
I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned
in seven years." |
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| "Blessed is the man who, having nothing
to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." |
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| "Pain makes man think. Thought
makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable." |
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| "Fear the goat from the front, the
horse from the rear, and the man from all sides." |
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| "In the beginner's mind, there are many
possibilities. But in the expert's mind, there are few." |
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- Shunryu Suzuki, Zen philosopher
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| "Be wiser than other people, if you
can; but do not tell them so." |
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- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), English statesman, Letter (29 November
1745).
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| "He is wise that can make a friend of a
foe." |
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| "To prophesy is extremely
difficult-especially with respect to the future." |
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| "It is a capital mistake to theorize
before one had data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit
theories, instead of theories to suit facts." |
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| "Never eat more than you can
lift." |
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| "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in
being wise in time." |
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| "Experience is the child of thought,
and thought is the child of action. We can not learn men from
books." |
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- Benjamin Disraeli, former English Prime Minister and novelist
(1804 - 1881).
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| "You can tell whether a man is clever
by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his
questions." |
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