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Quotes of the Day for 23 November 2004 - Wisdom

I started this Thanksgiving Week theme yesterday with quotes about the bravery that gets us through the travails of life, one of the many blessings we should give thanks for. But bravery alone is not enough, in fact, it's probably dangerous. As we bravely err along the way comes Wisdom, today's theme.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim,
  Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,
  And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
     - Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 - 1947

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
     - Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1821 - 1881

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
     - Marcel Proust, 1871 - 1922

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
     - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
     - William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
     - Felix Frankfurter, 1882 - 1965

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