Without remembering, wisdom is impossible. Wisdom is learning from our own lives and from the lives of others. Wisdom matters because good cannot be achieved without it. Good intentions without wisdom lead to either nothing or to actual evil. However much evil movements have appealed to the bad side of people’s natures, almost every one of them, communism being the most obvious example, also appealed to people’s good intentions.
Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, pg. 137
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