- Introduction
- Two kinds of fools: first those who are really ignorant but always think that they know much and secondly, those who know much and yet think that they know little. The first set of fools may be described as inspired fools, but the second group of fools is really philosophers in disguise.
- Politicians, who claim of having deepest knowledge of their country’s problems and their solutions in international context, are actually foolish and stupid enough to play with emotions of common mob.
- Joseph Conrad, in his novel “The Head of Darkness” has challenged the so-called European civilization based on modern scientific knowledge and their notion to transplant it in other backward regions of the world. So, he says,”Only policeman and butcher can keep people on the right pathin civilized Europe.”
- According to Freudian psychology, self deception is greatest of deceptions.
- It is a common place occurrence that many student in Pakistani universities take up subjects which they have no aptitude and meet with failure atthe examination.
- A wise man always subjects him to self-examination.
- The difference between knowledge:
- Knowledge always makes one proud; it makes one forget one’s limitations.
- Wisdom, however, is always humble.
- Tennyson says knowledge as”earthly”and wisdom as”Heavenly”.
- If too much reading, as Solomon said, is weariness of the flesh, excessive knowledge is a tyranny of the mind. Wisdom is in fact, the flowering of the spirit.
- Conclusion
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