Memory Is Not Wisdom

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? —Martin Farquhar Tupper

Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. —Charles Dickens

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom. —Herbie Hancock

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. —Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The pretensions of final truth are always partly an effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. —Reinhold Niebuhr

Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own. —Harry S. Truman