"From what has been said it is plain, then, that philosophic wisdom is scientific knowledge, combined with intuitive reason, of the things that are highest by nature. This is why we say Anaxagoras , Thales, and men like them, have philosophic but not practical wisdom, when we see them ignorant of what is to their own advantage, and why we say that they know things that are remarkable, admirable , difficult, and divine, but useless; viz. because it is not human goods they seek. "
P. 1028, "Nicomachean Ethics," BASIC WORKS OF ARISTOTLE (1941, 2001)