
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
Improvisation for the Theater (1963), page 3
Context: Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.
Address on The Method of Nature http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/authors/emerson-ralph/emerson-method-734/ (1841)
Robert Rosen (2013), Essays on Life Itself Chapter 18
“An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol. 1, p. 160
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General