Consolation for Inadequacy (Alain de botton)

You know I always haunt by the feeling that I know too little, and therefore make myself restless. Maybe it's time to see how Montaigne differenciate between "learning" and "wisdom".

"I gladly come back to the theme of the absurdity of our education: its end has not been to make us good and wise, but learned. And it has succeeded. It has not taught us to seek virtue and to embrace wisdom: it has impressed upon us their derivation and their etymology... We readily inquire, 'Does he know Greek or Latin?' 'Can he write poetry and prose?' But what matters most is what we put last: 'Has he become better and wiser?' We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty."

These days, I rather read books that are irrelevant to my subjects... but "Only that which makes us feel better may be worth understanding" ma = =.. (wonderful excuse!)