It seems we are hearing more about "wisdom." I'll pass along some words to the wise:
Bertoly Brecht, in
The Caucasian Chalk Circle: "Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."
Simeone Weil: "It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made oursleves clear to ourselves."
A. A. Milne, in
Winnie the Pooh: "Owl hasn't exactly got a Brain, but he Knows Things."
Goethe: "Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations."
Flannery O'Connor, in
The Habit of Being: "Learn what you can, but cultivate Christian skepticism. It will keep you free—not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellect of those around you."
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