
“When knowledge is put into practice that’s when wisdom is born within a person.”
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
“When knowledge is put into practice that’s when wisdom is born within a person.”
“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
Source: The Man with the Twisted Lip
Billy writing a letter to a newspaper describing the Tralfamadorians
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Context: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."
“Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.”
Holborn, Hajo; A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY: The Reformation; 1959/1982 Princeton university Press
and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Love Over Scotland, chapter 96.
The 44 Scotland Street series
“Knowledge ceases to be wisdom when one has no method for making sense or use of what one learns.”
Source: Book 2, Chapter 7 (p. 591), The Dragon in the Sword (1986)