What is Beauty? What is Wisdom?

What is beauty? What is Wisdom? In Daoist philosophy “men claim that Mao Qiang and Lady Li were beautiful, but if fish saw them they would dive to the bottom of the stream; if birds saw them they would fly away, and if deer saw them they would break into a run. Of these four, who knows how to fix the standard of beauty in the world” [The Zhuangzi, Chapter 2]?  Does that mean that there is no such thing as beauty? While outward standards of beauty may change, inward beauty remains constant, “let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious” [ 1 Peter 3:4].  

Oriental minds claim that Chuang Tzu was wise, but if Moses listened to him he would flee to the desert, and if Buddha heard him he wouldn’t care; if Muhammad listened to him he would threaten him, and if  a Western Christian considered what Chaung Tzu said, he would say, “He sounds like John the Apostle but it isn’t the same.”  Chaung Tzu himself would say, “How to you know? You are not Oriental!” Does that mean that there is no such thing as wisdom?  Wisdom comes with a right relationship with the Creator of all things, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction” [Proverbs 1:7]. But wisdom without love can be hollow, “The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere” [James 3:17].