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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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. – Thomas Carlyle

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true. – Lactantius

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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan

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No man was ever wise by chance. – Seneca

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