Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Source: 1956 journal entry; in John Cheever: The Journals, The Late Forties and the Fifties, ed.Robert Gottlieb, 1991.
-- John Cheever, (May 27 1912-1982), US short-story writer, novelist; His work described, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class, suburban America.