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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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. – Julian Casablancas

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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