GOOD NEWS IF YOU THINK YOURSELF WISE!

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) 

Spanish novelist/dramatist/poet.

This means there are no limits to how wise you can become.

The first step is to recognize you are not as wise as you think.

The second step is to be open to all new ideas and things.

There are, of course, many more steps but do this much and you'll be wise enough to discover them yourself.

KNOWING WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much. Wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

William Cowper (1731-1800) British poet.

Start by knowing you will always know much less than you need to know.

Do that and you've arrived at the first, most important level of wisdom.

YOU DON'T SAY!

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer.

Less is often more, wiser too.

ANSWERING TO OURSELVES

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman/scientist/philosopher

For all of us, the latter.

For many, not enough of and sometimes never the former.

Of them I wonder, at the end, do they ever wonder, "What have I done?"