Thursday, July 07, 2011
A Little Knowledge
Sanskrit verses, from Arthur William Ryder, Original Poems, together with Translations from the Sanskrit (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939), p. 61:
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When I knew a little bit,Id., p. 80:
Then my silly, blinded wit,
Mad as elephants in rut,
Thought it was omniscient; but
When I learned a little more
From the scholar's hoarded store,
Madness' fever soon grew cool,
And I knew I was a fool.
A fool's opinion easily is bent;Hat tip: Ian Jackson.
More easy 'tis to win the wise and great;
But God himself could never make content
The man who feels himself elate
With one small grain of knowledge in his pate.
