“Wisdom's first progress is to take a view
What's decent or indecent, false or true.”
John Denham (1615–1669) English poet and courtier
Source: Of Prudence (1668), line 1
“Even a false imitation of wisdom must be reckoned as wisdom.”
Source: Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness), p. 85
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Even a false imitation of wisdom must be reckoned as wisdom." by Yoshida Kenkō?
Yoshida Kenkō31
japanese writer 1283–1350Related quotes
“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Source: Selected Works
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 36
“There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Variant: Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Source: The Lightning Thief
“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