The path to hell is paved with good intentions. The fact that this saying even exists is proof that Theodore is wrong. To say that kindness is more important is naive at best. And to condition wisdom as acceptance of some idiot's ideology is pure foolishness.
Kindness is not blind acceptance of everyone's behaviour, it's considering the other's interests and point of view -otherwise it's lenience-, you can be kind yet disagree, it doesn't set you on the path to hell. It requires to grow a broader point of view and taking different aspects of a problem into account, instead of a self-centered view. By providing different outlooks, it allows people to develop a more complete mind. Without kindness, you can't go far in the way of wisdom.
It's not the kindness of others that paves the way to hell but instead our own misguided kindness. It can be a kindness to do what is best for others even to our own detriment. However, not everything we think is a kindness actually is one and it in fact could be a detriment to the ones we seek to be kind to instead. That is why I call that saying naive.
Theodore set the sole condition to obtaining wisdom as being through kindness. Wisdom, is simply the application of knowledge. Now you can learn wisdom from kindness but it is far far from the only source and most wisdom is actually learned from failure.
What you have described is actually the use of wisdom for the application of kindness. The wisdom was not derived from the kindness. That same wisdom can be applied to the application of hate as well. Vladimir Lenin was a wise man, evil yes, but also a wise man. Many conquerors, tyrants, and murderers were wise. I like and applaud your mindset but it is, in my opinion, naive.
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Theodore set the sole condition to obtaining wisdom as being through kindness. Wisdom, is simply the application of knowledge. Now you can learn wisdom from kindness but it is far far from the only source and most wisdom is actually learned from failure.
What you have described is actually the use of wisdom for the application of kindness. The wisdom was not derived from the kindness. That same wisdom can be applied to the application of hate as well. Vladimir Lenin was a wise man, evil yes, but also a wise man. Many conquerors, tyrants, and murderers were wise. I like and applaud your mindset but it is, in my opinion, naive.