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«The wisest of the wise may err.»
«To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
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apparently, dependent, depth, detail, informed, multiplicity, on the other hand, outward, perceive, trivial, wisest
«The wisest mind has something yet to learn.»
«Time is the wisest counsellor of all.»
«The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.»
«When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man»
Author: Diogenes
(Founder, Philosopher)
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contemptible, look upon, philosophers, priests, Prophets, seaman, seamen, wisest
«Time is the wisest of all counselors»
«Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.»
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