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Ralph Waldo Emerson 727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”
Hugh Prather
(1938–2010) American writer
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“Women are wiser than men, because they know less and understand more.”
James Thurber
(1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
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“As we age, we become more foolish and wiser.”
En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage.
Maxim 210.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.”
John Pomfret
(1667–1702) English poet
Reason: A Poem, 1700.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)
Context: Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. … To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
“We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.”
Wendell Berry
(1934) author
Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
Context: We are alive within mystery, by miracle. "Life," wrote Erwin Chargaff, "is the continual intervention of the inexplicable." We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say. The constructions of language (which is to say the constructions of thought) are formed within experience, not the other way around. Finally we live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. There is no reason whatever to assume that the languages of science are less limited than other languages.
Umberto Eco
(1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library