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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Nothing is more unfair,” as an English historian has well said, “than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet”
― The American Poetry and Literacy Project, Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure