Thoughts on Wisdom: Thoughts and Reflections from History's Great Thinkers

When a young Scottish financial reporter named B. C. Forbes, who had come to the tumult of turn-of-the-century New York from the even greater tumult of the South African gold fields, founded the company that today owns American Heritage magazine, he was already collecting aphorisms about what he called "The Business of Life." It became a feature in Forbes magazine throughout his life, and a tradition that continues to this day. As this culling of some of the most engaging of these observations suggests, B. C. Forbes and his successors cast a very wide net indeed. Among this constellation of lights by which to navigate the shoal waters of existence are the great civil engineer George Goethals and the science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, Winston Churchill and Ernie Pyle, Charles Steinmetz and George Washington, and, of course, Theodore Roosevelt, who dispensed nuggets of pithy advice with the same furious energy he brought to everything else he did. The editors of American Heritage hope and believe that you will find the distillation of experience in this succinct compendium among the most agreeable ways to obtain that often painfully acquired commodity, wisdom., ISBN13:B0016G0VRE ISBN10:B0016G0VRE Material Type:paperback