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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. – Voltaire

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. – Plato

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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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