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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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle

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The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. – Jean Bodin

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H. L. Mencken

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Wise men still seek Him today. – Dan Bell

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Its very hard to know what wisdom is. – James Hillman

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My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. Ive always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. Thats my dad. – Jane Pauley

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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But thats not the same thing as wisdom. – Joshua Foer

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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. – Horace Mann

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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. – David Hockney

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