This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
William Osler, fully Sir William Osler
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Walter Gorn Old or Gornold, born Walter Richard Old, pseudonym Sepharial
Learning is the perception of differences; wisdom is the perception of similarities. The final statement of wisdom must be: Omnia sunt unum in Deo.
Learning | Perception | Wisdom |
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool as speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If thou wouldst be known as wise, let thy words show thee so; if thou doubt thy words, let thy silence feign thee so. It is not a greater point of wisdom to discover knowledge than to hide ignorance.
Doubt | Ignorance | Knowledge | Man | Silence | Speech | Wisdom | Wise | Words | Trial |
Much of the wisdom of one age is the folly of the next.