Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
— James Boswell  ·  Wisdom

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proportion [prə'pɔrʃən] 词频2 词根: part
n. 比，比率;[数学]比例（法）;面积;相称，平衡; vt. 使成比例;使相称;使均衡;
💡 pro前面+port部分，分开+ion名词后缀→成分其中一部分→[所占]比例
"Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface."
水覆盖了地球表面的大部分。
近义：proportionate, accommodate, adapt, fit, proportionality, balance 反义：hype, magnify, overstate, stretch, dramatize, bulge
experience [ɪk'spɪrɪəns] 词频1 词根: peri
n. 经验，体验;经历，阅历; vt. 亲身参与，亲身经历;感受;发现;
💡 ex出+per尝试+ience名词后缀→尝试出来的东西→经验
"Salary will be commensurate with experience."
薪金将会与资历相称。
近义：career, tradition, undergo, savvy, skill, expertise 反义：inexpertness, rawness, unskillfulness, callowness
capacity [kə'pæsəti] 词频2 词根: 抓住
n. 容量;才能;性能;生产能力; adj. 充其量的，最大限度的;
💡 cap拿，抓，握住+acity表名词，有...倾向→拿住的能力→容量；才能
"We mustn't attempt unrestricted expansion regardless if it is within our capacity."
我们不能不顾自己的能力企图无限制地发展.
近义：aptitude, aptness, potential, proficiency, skilfulness, skill 反义：impotence, inability, incapability, incompetence, incompetency, invalidity
wise [waɪz] 词频1
adj. 聪明的，有智慧的;博学的，博识的;明白的;像智者的; vt. 使知道，使懂得;教导;指点; vi. 了解，知道;
"a wise and virtuous man"
博学多识的君子
近义：informed, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered 反义：silly, stupid, tomfool, unaware, uneducated, unenlightened

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— Marilyn vos Savant
"No man is wise enough by himself."
— Titus Maccius Plautus
"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
— Horace
"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."
— Menander
"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."
— Walt Whitman
"Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it."
— Robbie Gass
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
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