"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Topic(s): Wisdom More From Oliver Wendell Holmes "Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?" "Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel." "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." More In Wisdom "I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out."― Josh Brolin "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."― David Starr Jordan "The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."― George Santayana