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

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. – M. Scott Peck

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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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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. – Honore de Balzac

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