Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
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