Listen to the sound of water. Listen to the water running through chasms and rocks. It is the minor streams that make a loud noise; the great waters flow silently.
The hollow resounds and the full is still. Foolishness is like a half-filled pot; the wise man is a lake full of water.
The hermit can talk of many things with good sense and precision. He can describe the Way Things Are from a position of knowledge. There is much that he can talk about from that position.
But when a man of knowledge retains his self-control, when a man of knowledge speaks only a little, then you have found a man of wisdom, a man for whom that silence is appropriate and deserved.
Such a man has found the “silence of wisdom.”
Such a man has found the “silence of wisdom.”
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