Isaiah 19:11 · World English Bible
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
The cleverest minds can become the most foolish, because cleverness is not wisdom. When you draw your identity from what you know, from your credentials, your lineage, your reputation as one of the wise, you have built your sense of self on thought.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
The cleverest minds can become the most foolish, because cleverness is not wisdom. When you draw your identity from what you know, from your credentials, your lineage, your reputation as one of the wise, you have built your sense of self on thought. And thought, however brilliant, cannot reach the truth of who you are.
This is why the celebrated counsellors give brutish counsel. They are cut off from the deeper intelligence that arises only in stillness. Real wisdom is not a possession of the mind. It comes when the mind grows quiet and you meet life directly, so whoever boasts of inherited knowledge has mistaken the noise of thinking for understanding.
Ego v. Being lens
When was the last time being clever got in the way of actually understanding something?
The one who knows does not pile up arguments, and the one piling up arguments does not know. Learning can be added to; wisdom is what is left when the adding stops.
A cup already full holds nothing new. Empty the cup and the tea can finally be poured.
He was called the wisest because he alone knew that he knew nothing. Every claim to be wise was the thing standing in the way.
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Ego v. Being