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Your Quotes for 23 November 2005 - Wisdom

Alfonso X, later to become king of Castile and Leon, was born on this day in 1221. He was hungry for knowledge and established a translation school at Toledo to bring ancient philosophy into Christian Europe. He learned much astronomy from the Arabs. Sadly, after also becoming king of Germany he pursued various crazy schemes and ruined the economy of his realm. He was known as "El Sabio" during his reign. That's normally translated as "The Wise", but it turned out he was merely "The Learned", which isn't quite the same.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
     - Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
     - Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
     - Confucius

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
     - Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
     - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, 1841 - 1935

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
     - Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

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