Sir Francis Bacon purportedly made this inane statement in 1597 in his essay, Religious Meditations. It is inane to the degree that it is a sweeping generalization, but since I cannot find the quote in said essay, my statement in itself is inane.
God told us that knowledge puffs up, or makes proud, and pride weakens ones character in the same way that heat-treating, without tempering, makes a steel blade brittle. Meekness, in contrast, is the tempering attribute that, with power, produces both keenness and strength.
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