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"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
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"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
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