“We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.”
John Pomfret (1667–1702) English poet
Reason: A Poem, 1700.
“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)
Context: Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. … To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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