Showing posts with label Jimi Hendrix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimi Hendrix. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

On the topic of knowledge and wisdom

I recently stumbled upon a quote attributed to Jimi Hendrix - but when searching, I could not really find any evidence that I had found the right source of the quote.
However, this in turn led me to a quote from the american author and doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., who with some certainty should be the author of the following:
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
I think it is a beautiful quote - and so obviously true. If you carry knowledge, you have a good point from which to speak - but wisdom is achieved by listening (and reading, and in other ways absorbing knowledge).
(Translated from Noget om viden og visdom)