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Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.