“erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit”

“if we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarim; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition” - charles caleb colton“people who use their erudition to write for a learned minority, don’t seem to me favored by fortune, but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture” – desiderius erasmus“erudition, n. dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull” – ambrose bierce“wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of a lifelong attempt to acquire it” - albert einstein“to quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound” - christian nevell bovee“a wise old owl sat on an oak; the more he saw, the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard; why aren’t we like that wise old bird”“courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent: that is what wisdom wants us to be. wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior” - friedrich nietzsche“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 most bitter” - confucius“i never desired to please the rabble. what pleased them, i did not learn; and what i knew was far removed from their understanding” – epicurus“we seek to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. we always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. success often lies just the other side of failure” – leo f. buscaglia

saturday morning 14th september 2013 – changing of the guard – on the grounds of the presidio, san francisco california

in memory of mr. calvin coolidge “cal” worthington, 27th november 1920 – 8th september 2013

peace