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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
There is a very longstanding tradition in support of that view:
.....For with much wisdom is much sorrow; as knowledge increases, grief increases.
..........— Ecclesiastes 1:18, Holman Christian Standard Bible.
Personally, I don't believe that one's necessarily true either.
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Its not hard to see how the theory works though. I suppose it depends on the type of "wisdom" or "intelligence" you are talking about. Some people can know everything there is to know about, say, stamps, and be perfectly happy in that little world. On the other hand, someone can know all there is to know about AIDS in Africa (a cause close to my heart as I lived there for a time), and the more one knows about it, the more saddened one may become. All a matter of perspective.
Like perspectives, which, rightly gazed upon,
Shew nothing but confusion—eyed awry,
Distinguish form.
Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act II. Scene 2.