Forgiving

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. - J. K. Rowling

  Don't gloat; it makes forgiveness even more difficult.

Unwise Desires

A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom. - Robert Heinlein

Bureaucracies are established to butt into other people's business.

On The Road

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Chinese Proverb


As my father said "Learn to soft-soap the older generation."

Knowledge ≠ Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Sandra Carey


Why you should always be wary of an experts opinion outside their realm of expertise.

Exams

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton


You don't have to be a genius to come up with tough questions.

Perfection

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. - Francois de Fenelon

There sure are a lot of imperfects out there.

Mistaken

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. - Mahatma Gandhi


There is a difference between being humble and being wishy-washy.

Graceful Wrinkles

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. - Victor Hugo


You will also find wisdom where grace is joined with wrinkles.


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Ripe Old Age

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. - Victor Hugo   


Ripening is an improvement with time; aging is stagnation altered by time.


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Baffling Concepts

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. - E. O. Wilson   


Hopefully none of my concepts are baffling. If they are then I have failed to communicate.


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Seeing and Doing

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. - George Santayana 


I would add:
Creativity is seeing things as they might be.
Wisdom is seeing what ought to be.
Heroism is making things the way they ought to be.


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Wise Competence

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. - Allan Bloom 


Being wise will lead to competence and success.


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Spending Wisdom

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. - William Feather 


 Having money or not does not make you wise.


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What is Wisdom?

In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 

Wisdom is understanding what has been learned.

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Daily Learning

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan 


Oh oh, the old farts' secret is out.


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See Then Speak

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. - Chinua Achebe

Hopefully young people learn to speak for the same reason.

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The Youngest You Will Ever Be

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Act like it. - Mark Cuban

There are those who are young and try to act old; there are those who are old and try to act young; then there are those who are perpetually young with the wisdom gained only with age.

Conventional Wisdom

Conventional wisdom is often long on convention and short on wisdom. – Warren Buffett

Folks who argue with you may need to be reminded of this from time to time.

Gifts

Nights bring me hindsight, days bring me doing, tomorrows bring me wishes, yesterdays bring me wisdom, the moon vanity, the sky longing, the sun fear, and the earth? It waits for me. - Chief Dan George

Spoken like a true man of the universe.

Worldly Wisdom

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. - Edward R. Murrow





Just because someone speaks with authority from some far away place does not make them wise. It may be that they are only (unfortunately) more influential.