“There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.”
Bk. III, Ch. 1
Hard Times (1854)
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“Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism”
Quoted in Collected works of Thanthai Periyar E.V. Ramasami [sic http://books.google.co.in/books?id=edx4AAAAIAAJ, Volumes 1-11], p. 49.
Rationalism
“Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.”
Misnad al-Imām al-Hādī, p. 304.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 88.
“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”
The Now of Pooh.
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)
Context: Abstract cleverness of the mind only separates the thinker from the world of reality, and that world, the Forest of Real Life, is in a desperate condition now because of too many who think too much and care too little. In spite of what many minds have thought themselves into believing, that mistake cannot continue for much longer if everything is going to survive. The one chance we have to avoid certain disaster is to change our approach, and learn to value wisdom and contentment. These are things that are being searched for anyway, through Knowledge and Cleverness, but they do not come from Knowledge and Cleverness. They never have, and they never will. We can no longer afford to look so desperately hard for something in the wrong way and in the wrong place. If Knowledge and Cleverness are allowed to go on wrecking things, they will before much longer destroy all life on this earth as we know it, and what little may temporarily survive will not be worth looking at, even if it were possible for us to do so.
“The heart of Man is not compound of lies,
but draws some wisdom from the only Wise.”
Mythopoeia (1931)
