“It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
“When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!”
“The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.”
“Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.”
“New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.”