Wisdom

Parents

"... education ... is a mechanism whereby society attempts to reliably inculcate in its members ... what it took the very brightest and most determined of their ancestors centuries of painful and sporadic efforts to work out. ..."
"If you are in a hurry, you are in the wrong place." — Old Narrowboat Saying
"Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo"
"Not everybody can know about everything."
"On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice."
"Socrates said that a man doesn’t want what he thinks that he doesn’t lack (Symposium 200a-b, Lysis 221d). That is, if one doesn’t think that one lacks a big nose, one doesn’t want a big nose. Similarly, if one thinks one has the truth, one stops looking."
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
“Precepts or maxims are of great weight, and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.”
“The greatest wisdom of all is kindness.”
Book of Proverbs
Common Sense
Confidence, Resilience
Instruction of Amenemope
Religion for the Nonreligious
Risk
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