“There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.”
Source: The Final Empire
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“We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
"Black Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Tip" in Skyhook #23 (Winter 1954-55); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Context: We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I. And they're
Very hard to mutter
Through so much chatter and stutter.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue (2001) by Sandra Ford Walston
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 91
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
Context: When we consider the ideals - the values - that we should foster in Scotland's young people, we can think of the words inscribed on the mace of the Scottish Parliament. Words that help describe the values for our whole democracy: justice, wisdom, integrity and compassion. Values that are - and have always been - at the heart of Catholic education in Scotland.
“Knowledge ceases to be wisdom when one has no method for making sense or use of what one learns.”
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Source: Book 2, Chapter 7 (p. 591), The Dragon in the Sword (1986)