The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.