-=> On 05-31-97 08:53, Sondra Ball <=-
-=> spoke to Patti Jones about Hello <=-
> I believe that being one year older just makes me relize how little I
>really know !!!! I thought at 18 I knew everything, and found out that
>didn't, at 21 I thought surely I'd everything by then,
>but didn't, so I look
>to 25, and didn't and look at 30, and didn't and looked at 40, and KNEW I
>didn't, and thought certainly at 50 I would, but found
>that I know less than
>ever thought I knew at 18 !! Maybe this IS what you call wisdom .
SB> I once heard 17 described as the age when you know everything there is
SB> to know in the world except one more thing, and you're going to learn
SB> that tomorrow.
A teacher of mine once told me that before you can begin to obtain
wisdom, you first have to know what you don't know. Maybe that was the
one thing the 17 year old would learn tomorrow -- a realization of all
of those things that he does not know.
dale@ghawk.com
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