“I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.”

— Michel De Montaigne , book Essays

Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist

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“Government will always be conducted for the benefit of those who govern. If the few alone govern, the interests of the few only will be provided for; if the people themselves have a share in the government, the interests of the many will be consulted.”

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions

Source: Essays and Sketches of Life and Character (1820), p. 136

“Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Glory Road

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Context: Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

“Of this great trinity no part deny.
Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Affirm
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Context: p>Body and mind, and spirit, all combine
To make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.
Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.</p

“Love consults itself.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)

“It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) writer from France

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 200

“There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ink and Bone

“Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Siege of Macindaw

“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist

Translation from The Life of Pasteur p. 142 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012227595#page/n155/mode/2up
Soirées scientifiques de la Sorbonne (1864)

“Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

“I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.”

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