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Quote by Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon

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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. – Arianna Huffington

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. – Stephen Vincent Benet

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The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. – Christopher Lasch

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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. – Gerald Brenan

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The people on my mums side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dads side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. – Evangeline Lilly

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. – Van Wyck Brooks

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