“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
Source: The Man with the Twisted Lip
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“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 92.
Context: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
“Knowledge ceases to be wisdom when one has no method for making sense or use of what one learns.”
Michael Moorcock
(1939) English writer, editor, critic
Source: Book 2, Chapter 7 (p. 591), The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
Samuel Smiles
(1812–1904) Scottish author
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties
Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555), p. 128
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
The Woodspurge http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset03.html#3, st. 4 (1870).
“Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 10, p. 272.
“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”
Charles de Lint
(1951) author
“The Forest is Crying”, p. 62
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
Ellen G. White
(1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Medical Ministry (1932), p. 133