
1918 address to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
1918 address to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”
“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
Variant: Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
The Book of Ammon
Context: Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
“Power is not an inheritable good.”
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“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Dhammapada, Ch. 20, Verse 282