“Your father was a very wise man. But you cannot acquire his wisdom by pretending to have it already.”

— Lisa Goldstein

Source: The Red Magician (1982), Chapter 8 (p. 121)

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fantasy and science fiction writer 1953

Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 21
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Lux

“Siddhartha … had begun to suspect that his worthy father and his other teachers, the wise Brahmins, had already passed on to him the bulk and best of their wisdom, that they had already poured the sum total of their knowledge into his waiting vessel; and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied.”

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer

H. Rosner, trans. (Bantam: 1971), p. 5
Siddhartha (1922)

“In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Jace to Clary, pg. 317
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“Fortunate indeed is the man who has found wisdom and who is full of that discretion which is better than all the acquiring, trafficking, and possession of gold and silver. … I dwell (so says Wisdom) in good and salutary counsel, and am present at learned and wise cogitations. Therefore must a man seek this Wisdom and, having found it, take care to hold it well, that in its time and place it may be of help to him. The ensuing representation will set before your eyes the treatise which I have propounded.”

Philibert de l'Orme (1514–1570) French architect of the Renaissance.

Livre d'architecture as quoted by Edward Fenton, "Messer Philibert Delorme" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Vol. 13, No. 4, Dec., 1954

“Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.

“…his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive -- hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev!”

Kapil Dev (1959) Indian cricketer

When questioned "why a big country like India could not produce another fast bowler like him" quoted in Bigg Boss 6: Sidhu recalls funny sides of Kapil and Sachin, 18 October 2012, 20 December 2013, Times of India http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-18/tv/34554217_1_kapil-dev-kapil-dev-sachin-tendulkar,

“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.”

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer

Siddhartha (1922)
Context: Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular…. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Interview in Writers at Work (1963)
1960s

“Your father was a very wise man. But you cannot acquire his wisdom by pretending to have it already.”

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