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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choo

Wisdom 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. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – 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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Doubt grows with knowledge. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. – Frank Herbert

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller

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