Indeed, knowledge always speaks, but wisdom listens

By Ababu Namwamba
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During an important battle in the War of the Three Kingdoms, in the third century AD, advisers to commander Ts’ao Ts’ao discovered documents showing that certain of his generals had conspired with the enemy, and urged him to arrest and execute them. Instead, he ordered the documents burned and the matter forgotten. At this critical moment in the battle, to get upset or demand justice would have reverberated against him: and angry action would have called attention to the generals’ disloyalty, which would have harmed the troops’ morale.