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![]() . . . see "NATURE" for related links see "TIME" for related links The English winter ending in July, To recommence in August. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_ [1819-1824] In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. --Albert Camus (19131960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. _L'Ιtι_ (The Summer) "Return to Tipasa" [1954] No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November! --Thomas Hood (17991845) English poet and humorist. "No!" [1844] Winter air is one of the things that can be still without being stagnant. As a matter of fact, the stiller it is the more it seems to tingle with life. --Robert Lynd There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year. --Kathleen Norris (18801966) American author. _Bread into Roses_ [1936] - "Ancient Music" [1917] by Ezra Pound (18851972) American expatriate poet and critic (Parody of the 13th century "Cuckoo Song" - see SUMMER.) Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my ham. Freezeth river, turneth liver, Damn yiu, sing: Goddamm. Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm, So 'gainst the winter's balm. Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm, Sing goddamm, sing goddam, DAMM. - A tedious season they await Who hear November at the gate. --Alexander Pushkin (17991837) Russian poet. "Eugene Onegin" [1833] Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Richard III_ [1592-1593], I. i. 1 O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? --Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) English poet. "Ode to the West Wind" [1819] Vermont has nine months of winter and three months of damned poor sledding. --Vermont saying To shorten the winter, borrow some money due in the spring. --W.J. Vogel, in Paul Dickson, comp. _The Official Explanations_ [1980]. We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No clouds above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow! --John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) American poet. "Snow-Bound" [1866] ![]() ![]() WISDOM . . see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. --Aeschines (c.390314? B.C.) Athenian orator. Memory is the mother of all wisdom. --Aeschylus (525456 B.C.) Greek tragic dramatist. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou has attained it thou art a fool. --Rabbi Simon Ben Azzai Jewish scholar of the second century. Histories make men wise. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. "Of Studies" in _The Works af Francis Bacon_, [1825], v. 1, p.168 - FROM THE NY TIMES MAGAZINE [9 March 1997] p.65: Here's a story. A man went to a rabbi and asked, "Rabbi, you're a wise man, how is it that you're wise?" And the rabbi replied, "Study and hard work." Then the man asked, "What made you study and work hard?" And the Rabbi replied, "A lot of experience." "And how'd you get a lot of experience?" And the rabbi answered, "I had good judgment." And the man then asked, "What gave you good judgment?" And the Rabbi said, "A lot of bad experiences." --Daniel Bell, 77, Sociologist - - Whoso findeth me [wisdom] findeth life. --Bible "Proverbs" 8:35 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. --Bible "Romans" 1:22 KJV - The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. --William Blake (17571827) English poet. _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ [17901793] "Proverbs of Hell" - The Ten Cannots You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. --Rev. William John Henry Boetcker (18731962) German-born American minister and author. - What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. --Warren Buffett (1930 ) American businessman. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [19 November 1745]. The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _The Friend_, vol. 2 "On The Principles of Political Knowledge" [1828] - A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. - Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. Letter to Cobham. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. --William Cowper (17311800) English poet and hymnodist. _The Task_ [1785] bk. 6 "Winter Walk at Noon", l. 96 The fool wonders, the wise man asks. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experiences of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire. --Norman Douglas (18681952) Austrian-born British novelist and essayist. _South Wind_ [1917], ch.13 Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you. --Wayne Dyer American self-help guru. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they exhausted all other alternatives. --Abba Eban [Aubrey Solomon] (19152002) Foreign minister of Israel [19661974]. Speech in London [16 December 1970]. The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitiant of the northern temperate zones wiser and abler than the fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Prudence" _Essays_, First Series [1841] To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Experience" _Essays_, Second Series [1844] - He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. --Epictetus (55135) Greek philosopher. _Fragment_ #129, tr. George Long [1890] The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. --William Faulkner (18971962) American novelist. - Tim was so learned, that he could name a Horse in nine Languages. So ignorant that he bought a Cow to ride on. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1750] Where Sense is wanting, every thing is wanting. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1754] Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [July 1755] & note: Not a tenth Part of this Wisdom was my own . . ., but rather the Gleanings I had made of the Sense of all Ages and Nations. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. (On the sayings and maxims, in his _Poor Richard's Almanack_, "The Way to Wealth" [7 July 1757]. Between 1733 and 1758, Franklin published 1044 sayings in his _Almanacks_. He drew them mostly from several popular collections of sayings published in England during the previos 100 years. While modifying and polishing many, he himself, according to Wolgang Mieder (editor of _Dictionary of American Proverbs_, 1991), coined no more than 20 of the sayings. - Q) - Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself. --Kahlil Gibran (18831931) Lebanese poet. _Sand and Foam_ [1926] Bromidic though it may sound, some questions *don't* have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. --Katharine Graham (19172001) American publisher. Quoted by Jane Howard in "Ms." magazine [October 1974]. Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. --Thomas Gray (17161771) English poet. "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 19 [1747] The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less. --Piet Hein (19051996) Danish poet and mathematician. Goodness alone is *never* enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. --Robert A(nson) Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Stranger In A Strange Land_ [1961] Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. --Hermann Hesse (18771962) German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. _Siddhartha_ [1922], Ch. 2 - What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. Quoted in Julia B. Hoitt _Excellent Quotations For Home and School_, p. iv [1890]. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Poet at the Breakfast-Table_ [1872] - Some are wise, and some are otherwise. --James Howell (15931666) British writer. _Paroimiographia: Proverbs, or Old Sayed Sawes and Adages_ [1659] Every man is a dam fool for at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania". "The Philistine" magazine, published [18951915], this entry from vol. 29 [1909]. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. Ours is a world in which knowledge accumulates and wisdom decays. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.). "Censorship and Spoken Literature" in _Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Other Essays_ [1956]. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far. --Irish toast No man is ever old enough to know better. --Holbrook Jackson (18741948) British journalist, writer, and publisher. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. _The Principles of Psychology_ [1890] The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a legal brief [31 July 1810]. An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth. --Kautilya {also called Canakya, or Visnugupta} (c.350c.275 BC) Hindu statesman and philosopher. The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. --Helen Keller (18801968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler [1994]. - It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665], #132, tr. Louis Kronenberger [1959] Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Pensιes de La Rochefoucauld_ (ed. Claude Barbin) [1693] "Third Supplement" Maxim LXXX - It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. --Sam Levenson (19111980) American humorist. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _A Preface to Morals_ [1929] Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. _Machiavelli_ [March 1827] From the earliest times, the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discoverd what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _Cakes and Ale_, ch. 11 [1930] It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. --Menander (343?291 B.C.) Greek dramatist. Unidentified fragment 639 The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Prejudices: Third Series_ [1922], ch. 3 - We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. _Essais_ (Essays) {94 chapters written 1571-1580 & published 1580; the last 13 chapters were written 1585-1587 & published 1588 }, bk. 3, ch. 5 "Upon some Verses of Virgil." A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. - I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. --Sir Isaac Newton (16421727) English mathematician and physicist. Quoted in David Brewster _Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton_ [1855]. - God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen. --Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971) American theologian. "The Serenity Prayer" [1936] With slightly different wording, the first four lines above were attributed to Niebuhr in the "New York Times" on 2 August 1942. - Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. _The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell_ ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus [1968]. Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man. He that has more knowledge than judgment is made for another man's use more than his own. --William Penn (16441718) Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe. _Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693] - It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Plato (427?347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Wise men talk because they have something to say: fools because they have to say something. --Plato (427?347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. - What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known To see all others' faults And feel our own. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _Essay on Man_ [1734] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. [Definition of a proverb:] One man's wit, and all men's wisdom. --John Russell (17921878) British statesman. Quoted in _Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh_ (ed. Robert James Mackintosh [1835], entry for 6 October 1823. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. --Romy Schneider (19381982) Austrian actress. - If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Letters to Lucilius_ Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "Of Peace of Mind" _Minor Dialogues_ tr. Aubrey Stewart [1889] The Wise Man can receive neither Injury nor Insult. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "On the Firmness of the Wise Man" _Moral Essays_ tr. John W. Basore [1928] - - The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _As You Like It_ [1599], V, 1, 35 Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Romeo and Juliet_ [1595-1596], act II, sc. iii, l. 94 Speak of them as they are; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice; then you must speak Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Othello_ [1604-1605], V, ii, 343 - Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. --Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) English soldier, poet, and courtier. But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. --Laurence Sterne (17131768) English novelist. _Tristram Shandy_ [1760], bk. II, ch. 3 A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than yesterday. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. When I can look at Life with eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise; Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange my youth. --Sara Teasdale (18841933) American poet. Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1918. _Dark of the Moon_ [1926] "Wisdom" History and philosophy are the two eyes of wisdom, and if one is missing, then one has only half vision. --Christian Thomasius (16551728) German law professor at Halle University. In Donald R. Kelley _Faces of History_ [1998], p.244. Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. --Edward Thorndike (18741949) American educator and psychologist. He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Le Droit du Seigneur_, Act IV, Scene i I am not young enough to know everything. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. --Xenophanes (c. 560478 B.C.), Greek philosopher and poet. In Diogenes Laertius _Lives of Eminent Philosophers_, bk. IX. - I guess if I was smarter I'd see everything your way. --Will and the Bushmen, lyric, 500 Miles [1986 song]. Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise. --Welsh Proverb -- The strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen. After several minutes, the older worker had had enough. "Why don't you put your money where your mouth is," he said. "I will bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that outbuilding that you won't be able to wheel back." "You're on, old man," the braggart replied. "Let's see what you got." The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then, nodding to the young man, he said, "All right. Get in." ----- adage [AD-ij], noun: An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Synonyms: aphorism, proverb, saw, saying apothegm (noun) ['ζ-pκ-them] A terse saying that sums up a philosophical insight or conclusion; a maxim, an aphorism. A short, witty, and instructive saying. Synonyms: adage, aphorism, maxim, proverb, saw. Ex.: The rare talent of compressing a mass of profound thought into an apophthegm. --Henry Hart Milman, _The History of Latin Christianity_ gnomic [NOH-mik], adjective: Uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims; wise and pithy. judicious (adj.) [ju-'di-shκs] Wise in a particular instance, showing sound judgement. "Judiciously" is the adjective and "judiciousness," the noun. The near synonym, "prudent," implies judicious restraint. perspicacity (noun) [pκr-spκ-'kζ-si-ti] The ability to see things clearly and make sound judgements based on that vision. prudent (adjective) ['prood-nt] Wise, sagacious, exercising sound judgment. sagacious (adj.) [sκ-'gey-shκs] Having keen mental powers, shrewd, sound in judgment, extremely wise. sapient (adj.) 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