"'Does beauty know what beauty is?... Does water know wetness, or stone hardness?... Surely not... Nor the blue of the sky know its blueness, nor the green of the grass its greeness....
I will tell you what wisdom is, if you promise to become wise.... Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards... Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first.'"
--From Judgement, by Elizabeth Moon