"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition
of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-Theodore Rubin
One reason I enjoy this quote so much is because it gives me cause to re-read it several times. And the grand wisdom of the passage remains ultimately elusive to me despite my repetitious readings. Apropos of the subject which Rubin is commenting on. For if kindness is more important than wisdom, and recognizing this is potentially wise behavior, is it not true that one should avoid trying to become wise and consequentially become wise, that is if becoming wise is a desired result. Then perhaps you have wasted too much time on becoming wise and forgotten to be kind and all is lost.
Anyway.
Kindness and wisdom are part of the same train ride. Only kindness is the track that the wisdom car rides upon.
Theodore Rubin (1923) is an American psychiatrist and author. He is a former president of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis.
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