“Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.”— Michel Foucault Related Quotes “One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.”— Matshona Dhliwayo “The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26”— Ilchi Lee “It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”— Simone de Beauvoir