"The gift of knowledge"

“THE gift of knowledge makes for the correct management of temporal matters and shows us how to lead good lives in the midst of wicked persons; understanding enables us to study the Creator and His invisible creation; wisdom affords us the contemplation solely of eternal truth and a delight in it.”

~St. Thomas Aquinas: In III Sententiarum, 35, Proemium.

The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas (west wall), by Andrea da Firenze.
Fresco, 1366-67; Cappellone degli Spagnoli, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.