Alexander Pope Quotes About Wisdom
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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