Wisdom Of The Ages
Consider the progression of comments:
A child of five who has just completed a puzzle: Daddy, Daddy, I can do anything!
A twenty-one-year-old: Just ask me anything!
A forty-year-old -man: If it's in my line, I can tell you because I know my business
like an open book.
A man of fifty: The field of human knowledge is so vast that even a specialist can
hardly know all of it.
A man of seventy: I've lived a good many years, and I've come to realize that what I
know is little and what I don't know is vast.
A man of ninety: I really don't know much, and I can't recall even more.
The younger you are when you realize how little you really know, the better off you'll be. One of the greatest character traits is a teachable spirit.
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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 at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Author Unknown
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