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Monday, February 22. 2010

QQQ

I am not young enough to know everything.


Oscar Wilde

Posted by The News Junkie in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 10:26 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I've always had a crush on Oscar Wilde. Maybe it's because I also am a "smart-a$$," at least my parents thought so.

Marianne
#1 Marianne Matthews on 2010-02-22 12:02 (Reply)
Why does knowledge disappear with age? I mean, when I was a teenager I knew everything. Now? Not so much. I have been watching the same process unfold in my boys (now mid 20s). What an amazing progression to go from know-it-all to know that they don't know-it-all. I used to call my dad for advice once in awhile and he'd just laugh and laugh and tell me welcome to the club. I get to pass the same sage advice on now. Entropy happens and so does, occasionally, wisdom.
#2 JoeC on 2010-02-22 12:51 (Reply)
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”

- Mark Twain
#3 JJM on 2010-02-22 15:52 (Reply)
I love that Twain quote, JJM. I was trying to call it up out of my no longer quite so capacious memory when I read the Wilde quote. Thanks for reminding me.

Marianne
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2010-02-22 17:18 (Reply)
My favorite Wild quotes are "We may all be in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" and the other "Wars start when diplomats lie to journalists and then believe what they read"

And perhaps a Twain---"If stupidity got us into this mess why can't it get us out"
#5 Pat Moffitt on 2010-02-23 02:55 (Reply)

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