Quote by Thomas Carlyle
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle

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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Follow your instincts. Thats where true wisdom manifests itself. – Oprah Winfrey

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The prince who would know all, must ignore much. – Domitius Afer, translated from Latin

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. – John Barrymore

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