The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Didymus the Blind
AD 398
To know goodness is not sufficient to reach blessedness, if one does not put goodness into practice with works. Piety toward God is actually the beginning of knowledge. Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, Fragment