Silence Listening Remembering Practice Teaching

Jun 19, 2009 9:53 AM

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth pracicting, and the fifth -- teaching others.

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<li>A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ <a title="David Hume" href="/wiki/David_Hume">David Hume</a></li>

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<li>In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering. ~ <a href="/wiki/T.S._Eliot" title="T.S. Eliot" class="mw-redirect">T.S. Eliot</a></li>

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~ <a title="Ralph Waldo Emerson" href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, Nature, Ch. 8 (1836)

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

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<li>Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~ <a title="Lin Yutang" href="/wiki/Lin_Yutang">Lin Yutang</a></li>

<li>Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~ <a href="/w/index.php?title=Merry_Browne&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Merry Browne (page does not exist)" class="new">Merry Browne</a></li>

<li>The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom ~ <a href="/w/index.php?title=Frank_Whitmore&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Frank Whitmore (page does not exist)" class="new">Frank Whitmore</a></li>

<li>It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ~ <a title="Walter Lippmann" href="/wiki/Walter_Lippmann">Walter Lippmann</a></li>

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<li>When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ~ <a title="Mark Twain" href="/wiki/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a></li>

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<li>Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ~ <a title="William Cowper" href="/wiki/William_Cowper">William Cowper</a></li>

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