“There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.”
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
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Sri Aurobindo224
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Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817) American historian
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Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
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“Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.”
Alan Perlis (1922–1990) American computer scientist
The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966
“True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.”
John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Book 1 Chapter 1, p. 44
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
Context: Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.
“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
“Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.”
Trudi Canavan (1969) Australian writer
Source: Voice of the Gods