When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
知及之，仁不能守之；虽得之，必失之。
Source: The Analects, Wei Ling Gong XV, Chapter 33
Author: Confucius
The Insufficient Hold: Confucius on Why Virtue, Not Intellect, is the True Keeper of Gains
