Wise as the
owl, harmless as the dove. Wisdom is always humble and gracious and polite.
Does that describe you?
March’s Awakening, Day 22
Never seem wiser, nor more learned,
than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private
pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
—Lord Chesterfield
The
greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
—Winston Churchill
Knowledge
is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
—Ambrose Bierce
“Behold,
I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents
and harmless as doves. Matthew 10:16 NKJV
Wisdom
and knowledge are great things to possess, but most assuredly they should never
be used in any condescending or arrogant fashion. Just remember that no one
person knows everything about every topic, and even experts and scholars rarely
know everything about their own particular area of expertise. Thinking and
acting as such will make yourself appear to be the fool. You can learn
something from everyone and everyone knows something you don’t. Always be
humble and gracious and politely correct, preferably in private, if it
absolutely needs to be done. Embarrassing others, especially in public
circumstances, will always be detrimental to that relationship. We all learn
information in different ways and all of us have differing opinions and ideas
about many things. Just remember that wisdom and knowledge have their own set
of manners and etiquette too.
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