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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. ↗

— Saadi

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ↗

— T.S. Eliot

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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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