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"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them." Chinua Achebe 4.6897 average rating  
"It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear." Douglas Noel Adams 4.0000 average rating  
"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn." Henry Brooks Adams 3.8333 average rating  
"Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can." James Truslow Adams 4.1200 average rating  
"Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity." Joey Adams 3.8182 average rating  
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." John Adams 4.6667 average rating  
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." Scott Adams 4.4286 average rating  
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams 4.7455 average rating  
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day." William Adams 4.9167 average rating  
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." Joseph Addison 4.3750 average rating  
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass." Joseph Addison 3.6111 average rating  
"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else." Alfred Adler 4.5000 average rating  
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain." Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 4.5000 average rating  
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." Æschylus 4.6875 average rating  
"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil." Æschylus 4.3333 average rating  
"The wisest of the wise may err." Æschylus 4.1429 average rating  
"The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it." Æschylus 3.5556 average rating  
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency." Aesop 4.0000 average rating  
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." Aesop 4.8182 average rating  
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." James Agee 4.2381 average rating  
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