Accumulate

Accumulate Quietly

Accumulate Value

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Arrive Late

Become More Real With Age

Become More Valuable After Use

Become Stronger When Shared

Become Visible At The End

Cannot Be Borrowed

Don’t Like Being Rushed

Don’t Need An Audience

Gather Around Failure

Get Better With Use

Grow Quietly

Improve By Being Ignored

Improve By Being Passed Along

Improve Through Friction

Improve Through Waiting

Improve With Use

Make Good Ancestors

Mature

Need Cultivation

Need No Witness

Need To Be Earned

Quietly Hold The Future

Remain

Resist Being Counted

Resist Compression

Resist Ownership

Reveal Themselves Slowly

Reward Arrival Late

Reward Humility

Reward Memory

Reward Patience

Ripen

Turn Responsibility Into Legacy

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is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions. Sidney Hook

is a process which, just as for a carpenter who does not become one by desiring so, one who desires wisdom has 'to learn certain things'.

We see that a carpenter becomes a carpenter by learning certain things: that a pilot, by learning certain things, becomes a pilot. Possibly also in the present case the mere desire to be wise and good is not enough. It is necessary to learn certain things. This is then the object of our search. (epectitus 'sayings' : 37)

Wisdom is a sacred communion. Hugo, Victor

is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. Sidney Hook

Wisdom is an attribute of age. Job (Iyov) 12:12

is attained in the seeking. To think one has attained it is foolishness.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise... in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool. Lord chesterfield

is concerned not merely with looking, but also with knowing what to overlook.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

is concerned with seeking how to make us die well. Science is concerned with seeking the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well. Miguel de Unamuno

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