“To learn is not to know. There are the learners and the learned. Memory makes one, philosophy, the other.”
This is the quote I choose
for this weekend. It is taken from The Count of Monte Cristo
by Dumas. (I believe by the end of the month I will have Dumas
dominate my tags).
The
words above are spoken by Abbe Faria, and Italian gentleman who was
imprisoned in Cateau d'If, just like our Edmond Dantes. He was a
learned man, old and experienced. He made Dantes' imprisonment become
rather a good fortune than misfortune.
Socrates and Plato |
For
example, a doctor must know human body as a whole. He can see which
part of the body connects to which part, what the meaning of some
symptoms, etc. It would be different, of course, from something that
a high-school student learn. He knows which part is which and what
the functions of it, but he would find difficulty to see the
connection of every part of the body and how it affects the body as a
whole.
And
so is knowledge. The learned has philosophy – a kind of wisdom
gained by deep thinking, by meditation – while it only needs memory
to learn.
That
is my weekend quote for this week. What are yours? Feel free to share
it in the linky below. (For more information, please see this post)
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