“We must consider that wisdom is embedded in knowledge. Here is the list of the desires in order: Love, wealth, health, power and knowledge.”
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Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817) American historian
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 275.
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"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Variant: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
“Love is desire for knowledge.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.”
Muhammad Ali book The Soul of a Butterfly
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.”
Paolo Bacigalupi (1972) American science fiction and fantasy writer
"The Pasho", Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004
Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 317
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Variant: Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Context: O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book I, Ch. 25
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