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“If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.”

Leo Strauss · Wisdom

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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Gustave Courbet

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

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Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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