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1. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
   Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
   
2. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
   Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
   
3. Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
   Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
   
4. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
   Marilyn vos Savant
   
5. No man is wise enough by himself.
   Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus
   
6. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
   William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
   
7. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
   William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1