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Full Idea
As the drops of dew in contact/ With the sun's rays disappear,/ So all theorizings vanish,/ Once one has obtained wisdom.
Gist of Idea
Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom
Source
Rahulabhadra (Hymn to Perfect Wisdom [c.150], v 10)
Book Ref
'Buddhist Scriptures', ed/tr. Conze,Edward [Penguin 1959], p.169
A Reaction
I suspect that the western view is that wisdom is good theory. This sounds like the sort of thing Wittgenstein would have said. Remarks like this encourage people to skip study, with the illusion that they can go straight to wisdom.