Knowledge or wisdom

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Knowledge

 

1. I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the

body, until I realized who was telling me that. -Emo Phillips

 

2. Intelligence is almost useless to someone who has no other

quality. -Alexis Carrel in 'Man the Unknown'

 

3. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the

illusion of knowledge. -Daniel Boorstin

 

4.The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion,

but rather to know it. -Andre Maurois.

 

 

 

Wisdom

 

1. The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons,

because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly

and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and

feel noble. -Aldous Huxley

 

2. Concepts creat idols, only wonder comprehends anything.

People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our

knees. -St Gregory of Nyssa

 

3. Excerpt from Tao Te Ching

 

The Tao that can be told

is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named

is not the eternal Name.

 

The unnamable is the eternal Real.

Naming is the origin

of all particular things.

 

Free from desire

You realize the mystery

Caught in desire

You see only the manifestations.

 

Yet mystery and manifestations

arise from the same source

This source is called Darkness.

 

Darkness within darkness.

The gateway to all understanding.

 

 

4. Knowing the Mind of God

 

The Disciple said to his Master: How may I come to the

super-sensual life, that I may see God and hear Him speak?

 

His Master said: When thou canst throw thyself but for a moment

into that where no creature dwelleth, then thou hearest what God

speaketh.

 

Disciple: Is that near at hand or far off?

 

Master: It is in thee. And if thou canst for a while but cease from

all thy thinking and willing, then thou shalt hear the speakable

words of God.

 

Disciple: How can I hear him speak, when I stand still from

thinking and willing.

 

Master: When thou standest still from the thinking of self, and

the willing of self; "When both thy intellect and will are quiet, and

passive to the impressions of the Eternal Word and Spirit; And

when thy soul is winged up, and above that which is temporal,

the outward senses, and the imagination being locked up by

holy abstraction," then the Eternal hearing, seeing, and

speaking, will be revealed in thee; and so God "heareth and

seeth through thee," being now the organ of his spirit: and so

God speaketh in thee, and whispereth to thy spirit, and thy spirit

heareth his voice.

 

Blessed art thou therefore if that thou canst stand still from

self-thinking and self- willing, and canst stop the wheel of

imagination and senses... Since it is naught indeed but thine

own hearing and willing that do wonder thee, so that thou dost

not see and hear God

-Jacob Boehme, 17th century German Lutheran

mystic in his 'Of the Supersensual Life'

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Knowledge is information with an understanding, Wisdom is the outcome

after knowledge, understanding and action becomes one ?