“On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Quoted in Tim Ferris, "Tools of Titans" (2016), p. 454
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“I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 52
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