The wisdom of knowing when wisdom is not required, and that the commonplace soothes as the recondite never will, is the wisdom that underpins our constitutional monarchy.
As Einstein and Salk confirm, intuition opens a door to our native and deeper sources of knowing, a wisdom tree growing inside us.
She tells me she knew from the start that she didn't want to write "as Agatha Christie, in her voice", so the book is narrated by Catchpool, a Hastings-ish sort of a figure who is frequently, amusingly, needled by the great detective's all-knowing wisdom.
"We feel blanketed in the warmth of your generous spirit and all-knowing wisdom.
So let's act like we just got here and live with the wisdom of knowing we know nothing at all.
This axiom is presented as the axiom of negative introspection, or as the axiom of wisdom (since the agents possess Socratic wisdom, knowing that they do not know).
To quote just one of them, Lao Tzu, "Knowing others is knowledge; knowing yourself is wisdom".
What I am is a wisdom junkie, knowing all along that wisdom is, in many ways, junk.
Wisdom is elusive, however, as the words often attributed to Socrates relay: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing".
Dicta such as "Wisdom is knowing not to know" (Socrates) or "Stay hungry, stay foolish!" (Steve Jobs) testify how widespread this conviction is.
In particular, he looks at the plight of the Mayans, who have suffered at the hands of the Spanish but gained new wisdom, knowing that "time, like a spider, weaves slowly".
