The Many Phases of Wisdom Emotions of animosity empathy tragedy fortune failure success and sorrow

You must first
grow intimately familiar
with emotions of
animosity and empathy,
tragedy and fortune,
failure and success,
bliss and sorrow,
before you can erect
a consummate
chaste insight of
wisdom...
Author
~Laverne
©

Wisdom is knowing what to
do next, skill is knowing
how to do it, and virtue
is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

One's first step in wisdom
is to question everything
and one's last is to come
to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

By three methods we may
learn wisdom: First, by
reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by
imitation, which is
easiest; and third by
experience, which is the
bitterest.
Confucius

The wisdom of life
consistsin the elimination
of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang