Book I, fable 13, line 13.
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basketball player and coach from the United States 1945Related quotes
“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”
Bill Clinton
(1946) 42nd President of the United States
In support of John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 26, 2004
2000s
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”
Variant: Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Source: The Lightning Thief
Glen Cook
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Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 15, “The Land of Unknown Shadows: The Secret Masters” (p. 422)
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”
John Cheever
(1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
Phyllis Chesler
(1940) Psychotherapist, college professor, and author
Women and Madness (2005), p. 349, and see Women and Madness (1972), p. 302 (similar text).
Women and Madness (1972, 2005)
Hermann Hesse
(1877–1962) German writer
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.