1.
Please examine and discuss by example your take on the following quote by George Bernard
Shaw: "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for
experience.―
Solution
""Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest
men. #127-128."" From "Maxims for Revolutionists", 1903, George Bernard Shaw.
In other words what really matters is the capability to absorb practical experience and make
something of that by processing it and retaining conclusions.
Aldous Huxley put it this way: " Experience teaches only the teachable. " Sadly, some of us are
not.
The same applies to the capability to understand knowledge, as opposed to glancing over it.
Finally, there is a good chance that the statement belonged to Samuel Johnson one century before
Bernard Shaw, if we are to trust this very reputable source:
James Boswell, "The Life of Samuel Johnson", 1791.
And so, the same applies to intellectual curiosity: People are wise in proportion to their capacity
for that