On Wisdom

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato

"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 bitterest" - Confucius

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things" - Henry David Thoreau

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom" - Bertrand Russell

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth" - Sophocles

"Patience is the companion of wisdom" - Saint Augustine

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer" - Albert Einstein

Universally and across ages; patience, perseverance, discretion, courage; are held as building blocks and evidence of wisdom. The road map is obvious and obviously tough to follow going by the evidence of strife in life in general. So to get ahead a door needs to open to let out the self, and let sense in - the self that gets in the way of you and you, you and them.

On Anger

"Anger is a short madness" - Horace

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size" - Sydney J. Harris

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame" - Benjamin Franklin

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret" - Ambrose Bierce

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools" - Albert Enstein

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured" - Mark Twain

"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts" - Ovid

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it" - Marcus Aurelius

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned" - Buddha

Need any more convincing that anger kills the angry? It's not that its new news, its our recurringly amazing propensity to ignore it that makes us perfectly and hurtfully foolish.

On Experience

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so" - Douglas Adams

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust" - Karl Kraus

"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment" - Fred Brooks

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely" - Auguste Rodin

"The only source of knowledge is experience" - Albert Einstein

Innocence is being a child, Experience is that child growing up, like Blake tells in Songs of Innocence and Experience.