“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”
Source: The Complete Essays
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Michel De Montaigne 264
(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592Related quotes
Ibid., p. 9
The Education of the Stoic
Book 1, Proposition 4.
On the Equilibrium of Planes
“Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.”
Antonin Scalia
(1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Address to the Knights of Columbus Council 969 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana https://web.archive.org/web/20050903023753/http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=2291 (January 2005).
2000s
Frida Kahlo
(1907–1954) Mexican painter
Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)
1946 - 1953
Ammon Hennacy
(1893–1970) American Christian radical
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.
Robert Leighton
(1611–1684) 17th century Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
Theological Lectures, No. 5, "Of the Immortality of the Soul", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 514.
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 36 : The Broken Arrow