“Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
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Source: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 72)
“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”
Variant: Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Source: The Lightning Thief
“Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”
tr. in Goldstein-Jackson 1983, p. 163 http://books.google.com/books?q=isbn%3A9780389203933+%22A+man+may+learn+wisdom+even+from+a+foe%22+Aristophanes
Birds, line 375-382 (our emphasis on 375 and 378-379 and 382)
Compare the later: "We can learn even from our enemies", Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV, 428.
Birds (414 BC)
Section 4, member 1, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
As quoted in "Constitutional Originalism Requires Birthright Citizenship" https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/constitutional-originalism-requires-birthright-citizenship/ (9 September 2018), by Dan McLaughlin, National Review
1780s
“Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.”
Way Over Yonder
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)
“Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pigmies, came into the world.”
Les Employés http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Employ%C3%A9s [The Government Clerks] (1838), translated by James Waring; also known as Bureaucracy, or, A Civil Service Reformer.
Context: As routine business must always be dispatched, there is always a fluctuating number of supernumeraries who cannot be dispensed with, and yet are liable to dismissal at a moment's notice. All of these naturally are anxious to be "established clerks." And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pigmies, came into the world. Possibly Napoleon retarded its influence for a time, for all things and all men were forced to bend to his will; but none the less the heavy curtain of Bureaucracy was drawn between the right thing to be done and the right man to do it. Bureaucracy was definitely organized, however, under a constitutional government with a natural kindness for mediocrity, a predilection for categorical statements and reports, a government as fussy and meddlesome, in short, as a small shopkeeper's wife.
