Can someone please explain this quote to me? What does it have to do with Chinese Proverbs?
2007-01-30 11:48:58 · 5 answers · asked by Marcia 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
the only place I can find the specific quote is in "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze" a book from the early 1930s and set in China by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis.
The sentiment is common one however across a wide variety of faiths and philosophies - that material things are of themselves useless without the wisdom to use them appropriately.
"There can be no material wealth without wisdom, and vice versa"
The Talmud http://www.esek.com/jerusalem/5761/614.html
"...wealth without wisdom will waste far away"
The Countryman's New Commonwealth, 1647
http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/fow/fow18.htm
Prosperity and spirituality go hand-in-hand. Wealth without wisdom will soon become worthless."
http://www.aryasamajhouston.com/invo_docs/pravachan/prvchn_diwali01.html
"Glory and wealth without wisdom are not secure possessions."
The Golden Sentences of Democrates http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gvp/gvp05.htm
"Weal [prosperity] without wisdom is worthless."
Alfred the Great http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13376/13376-h/13376-h.htm
2007-01-30 14:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably is a Chinese proverbs, and it means that what is the point of being wealthy and having everything, if you don't have the wisdom to use it in a way that will make you and others happy?
2007-01-30 19:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by Wendy N 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One example or ideal is a person who inherits a massive amount of money and becomes an instant millionaire or say someone who wins the lottery. They have a fortune but none of it came from having wisdom. They didn't earn it or they didn't work for it. It was free.
I like how Wendy put it better.
2007-01-30 19:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by chazzer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means that when you get rich quick in some scheme or another, you don't have the wisdom to back it up, ie, if you are at a party and youv are rich, you say something dumb and everyone laughs AT you. When you are rich and educated, even if you say it is snowing out and it is in the middle of summer everyone would agree. BUT AN EDUCATED MAN WOULD NOT SAY ANYTHING DUMB LIKE THAT!
2007-01-30 21:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by Z to Da Q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you heard the saying,a fool and his money are easily parted?that's because the fool has no wisdom,speaks for itself,don't you think?
2007-02-01 16:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by TOM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋